Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularmente conocida como Fanny Hill) es una novela erotica de John Cleland publicada en Inglaterra en 1748. Escrita mientras el autor se encontraba en la prision para deudores en Londres, es considerada como "la primera prosa pornografica Inglesa, y la primera pornografia que usa la forma de novela." Es uno de los libros mas perseguido y censurado de la historia, y se ha convertido en sinonimo de obscenidad."

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first printed in England in 1748. Composed while the author was in a London debtor's prison, it is believed to be the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, and it has become a synonym for obscenity. The book is written as a series of letters from Fanny Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. Frances "Fanny" Hill is a 15-year-old...

Fanny Hill ist ein erotischer Briefroman von John Cleland. Er schrieb das Buch im Londoner Schuldnergefangnis. Das Buch wurde verboten und Cleland, mittlerweile aus dem Schuldnergefangnis entlassen, wieder unter Arrest gestellt. Es kam auch zu heimlichen Veroffentlichungen in den USA und wurde 1821 dort wegen Obszonitat verboten. Erst 1966 hob der Oberste Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten dieses Verbot wieder auf. Die erste deutsche Ubersetzung erfolgte 1906 wurde aber indiziert und als unzuchtig beschlagnahmt. Erst seit 1969 darf das Werk in Deutschland frei verkauft werden. Der Roman...

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by 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." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first printed in England in 1748. Composed while the author was in a London debtor's prison, it is believed to be the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, and it has become a synonym for obscenity. The book is written as a series of letters from Fanny Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. Frances "Fanny" Hill is a 15-year-old...

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre -Erotica.- It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor's prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been repeatedly banned by authorities, assuring its preeminent role in the history of the ongoing struggle against censorship of free expression. Until Fanny Hill, previous heroines had conducted their amorous liaisons -off-stage.- Any erotic misadventures were described euphemistically. As women who had gone astray, they always repented, which made even...

As I had now nobody left alive in the village, who had concerned enough about what should become of me, to start any objections to this scheme, and the woman who took care of me after my parents' death, rather encouraged me to pursue it, I soon came to a resolution of making this launch into the wide world, by repairing to London, in order to seek my fortune, a phrase which, by the bye, has ruined more adventurers of both sexes, from the country, than ever it made or advanced.

This is John Clelands controversial 1749 novel, "Memoirs of Fanny Hill". John Cleland (1709 - 1789) was an English novelist most famous for writing "Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". Other notable works by this author include: "Memoirs of a Coxcomb" (1751), "The Surprises of Love" (1764), and "The Woman of Honour" (1768). This book was undertaken by Cleland while he was incarcerated in in Fleet Prison due to an unpaid debt. The novel was published in two instalments, in November 1748 and February 1749. He was released from prison in March of that year. However, in November...