The Memoirs of Fanny Hill

by John Cleland

Published 1 October 2008
Memoirs of Fanny Hill is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's 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