Fanny Hill
Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
$31.90
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2026
Summary
As part of the Smith & Taylor Classics collection, this edition preserves Fanny Hill in its full provocative force, complete with new critical commentary.
Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its assumed obscenity, immorality, and lack of literary merit, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), is a novel considered to be the first original English prose erotica.
This is the tale of the titular…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781961884731 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1961884739 |
| Author: | John Cleland, Chelsea G. Summers, Jessica Stoya, Allison Miriam Smith, Brandon Taylor |
| Publisher: | Unnamed Press |
| Imprint: | Smith &Taylor Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 197mm x 129mm |
| Series: | Smith & Taylor Classics |
About The Author
John Cleland
John Cleland (1709-1789) was an English novelist known for The Dictionary of Love (1753), The Woman of Honour (1768), and most famously his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him ‘a sly, old malcontent’.
Chelsea G. Summers is a former academic and college professor with Ph.D. training in eighteenth-century British literature. A freelance writer, Chelsea’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, Vogue, The New Republic, Racked, The Guardian, and other fine publications. She splits her time between New York and Stockholm, Sweden. A Certain Hunger was her first novel.
Jessica Stoya has been a pornographer since 2006 and a writer since 2012. She has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Playboy, and others. She has acted in Serbian sci-fi feature Ederlezi Rising and two of Dean Haspiel’s plays in Brooklyn and Manhattan. She lives in Los Angeles.
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