"Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" has been widely banned and censored since its first publication in 1749, and was only made legal to sell in Great Britain and the United States in 1963. Despite this suppression, the novel has survived the test of time and brought notoriety to its author,
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
โ Scribed by Cleland, John
- Publisher
- Feedbooks
- Year
- 1749
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 966 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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### Review "A rare achievement . . . a ray of sunshine in the gloomy world of lust." --Erica Jong ### From the Inside Flap **Fanny Hill**, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral an
SUMMARY: The book concerns the eponymous character, who begins as a poor country girl who is forced by poverty to leave her village home and go to town. There, she is tricked into working in a brothel, but before losing her virginity there, escapes with a man named Charles with whom she has fallen i
**Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure** , commonly known as **Fanny Hill** , has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed it in 1749. The Bishop of London called the work 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners' and James Boswell referred to it as 'a most licentious an
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