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Fanny Hill

by John Cleland · 1748

Classics · ranked #80 in category

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure — known as Fanny Hill — follows an orphaned country girl who arrives in London, falls into a brothel, and narrates her subsequent sexual and social education with remarkable candour. The first English-language prose pornography, it is also a novel about class, economics and female survival; it was prosecuted for obscenity on publication and its author briefly imprisoned.

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Category
Classics
First published
1748 · 1740s
Author
John Cleland
Standing
Essential Read

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