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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
By John Cleland
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.
Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.
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John Cleland
John Cleland wrote 'Fanny Hill', also known as 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure', in two instalments whilst serving time in Fleet Prison for a bad debt. In 1749, Cleland was arrested for obscenity, yet denied responsibility for the novel. The book was officially withdrawn, and not officially published again for a hundred years. However, it continued to sell well and was published in pirate editions.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Porn in a Victorian English is still porn. Is porn literature? Leave it long enough and anything becomes literature, it seems. Dated and boring.Edit:Somebody took offence with my throwaway remark about this using Victorian English. (It's really Georgian.) My bad! Wish the commenter could have been nicer about it though!)
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5must have been the fifty shades of it's day... too much in the way of silly euphemisms for me, and the sheer silliness of finding Charles again in a tavern - a coincidence a little too far..
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The most amazing thing about this book was the depth of sexual detail given its time of writing, which I think is around 1800. It's like a Penthouse letter from the time of 'merry old England.'
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am utterly prejudiced about this particular edition since I put together this version of Fanny Hill with the great Herb Lubalin. It is a particularly beautiful piece of book-work and I am very proud of it. Oh yes, the writing is loads of fun, and the illustrations are very sweet as well.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Audiobook - well there is a lot of sex. The story is ok I guess - but too much sex with little of much else just did not work for me.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A girl becomes a prostitute before making good and marrying her true love. I found the narrative of the sexual encounters inbetween plodding and rather dull, and was never able to read more than a few pages at one sitting. Despite the detail, I couldn't really see what all the fuss was about.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5England, London, ca 1700-1750En ung forældreløs pige Fanny på 15 år sendes til London, hvor hun hurtigt havner i et bordel, for hun er virkelig ung og naiv. Hun forelsker sig i en af kunderne Charles og til sidst får hun ham efter at have gået så grueligt meget igennem.Bogen er delt op i 2 x 5 kapitler.???
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well, it's a classic, isn't it? The eroticism is a bit tame by modern standards but it's an interesting read, and must have been explosive in its own time.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5How extraordinary that a man thinks himself capable of writing an erotic novel from a woman's viewpoint. It's highly unlikely that Fanny considered her deflowering and professional life to be the mere larks that Cleland made them out to be. Pure fantasy and a man's fantasy at that.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's erotica. That pretty much says it all. The story wasn't completely ridiculous, which is pretty good for erotica where plot is often only a minor element used to move from one sexual encounter to the next. The language was laughable by current standards, but given that it was written in the 1700s, I'm sure it was scandalously racy in it's time. I enjoyed some of the sex (when I could get past the wording), and the story didn't bore me. It was a fun and easy read. Great vintage porn.
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Fanny Hill - John Cleland
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