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 Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by Cleland, John |
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Brief Description Tells the story of a prostitute's rise to respectability. This novel is a combination of parody, sensual entertainment and a philosophical concept of sexuality borrowed from French libertine novels. |
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Author Profile John Cleland was born in 1710, eldest son of William Cleland, an officer and friend of the Pope. For a while hoe worked for the East India Company, rising from soldiers to businessman to secretary of the Bombay Council, though he returned to London in 1741. He then became a literary hack and journalist and was imprisoned for debt on several occasions, and on one such occasion used the time to write Fanny Hill. He died in Westminster in January 1789. |
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Synopsis Among the most banned books of all time, Cleland's 18th Century novel got the author in trouble with many of the authorities. However, the quality of writing was so impressive, Cleland managed to wrangle a pension from one of the authority figures present at his trial (though he would then write far tamer stuff). |
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