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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel".
A classic of British literature, this book recounts the scandalous adventures of Fanny Hill, a young orphan who becomes a prostitute in London. The novel, first published in 1749, was banned for obscenity and censored for over a century.
Feb 21, 2024 · Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1749 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first erotic novel, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
Fanny Hill, erotic novel by John Cleland, first published in two volumes in 1748–49 as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. An expurgated version published in 1750 chronicles the life of a London prostitute, describing with scatological and clinical precision many varieties of sexual behaviour.
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- Cleland, John, 1709-1789
- English
Fanny Hill is a BBC adaptation of John Cleland's controversial 1748 novel Fanny Hill, written by Andrew Davies and directed by James Hawes. This is the first television adaptation of the novel. Fanny Hill was broadcast in October 2007 on BBC Four in two episodes.
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Nov 6, 2006 · Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland. No cover available. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… In Erotic Fiction. About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
