Remarkable and Surprising Account of the Abandoned Life, Happy Conversion, and Comfortable Death of Fanny Sidney

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This small booklet contains </i>A Remarkable and Surprising Account of the Abandoned Life, Happy Conversion, and Comfortable Death of Fanny Sidney</i> published by Elihu Phinney of Canaan, New York in 1795. The conversion story is told as a letter from Fanny’s minister, Reverend Martin Madan, to his friend. He relates the discourse that passed between them as Fanny lay dying. Fanny had been seduced into pre-marital sex, had a child, and was abandoned by the child’s father. To make ends meet, Fanny became an actress, then a seamstress, and finally a prostitute. She becomes ill, but in her sickness finds Jesus. On her deathbed, she recounts the saving grace of Jesus to Reverend Madan, and dies in a state of grace.