Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a woman of pleasure
John Cleland, 1749
UK
176 pages
Read in 2024.5
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ One of the most banned books in history
✔ Life of a woman of pleasure in Victorian England
✔ Female lead, somehow encouraging
★★★★☆ One of the most banned books in English literature. She's not only a mere woman of pleasure, but she gets rich! A free and lively woman who gets rich, yeah an enemy of the decent society.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
One of the most banned books in English literature.
It took a while to properly start reading it, but for me it's excessive.
That is the point of this book as it's said to be the first pornographic novel, but, less descriptions would have made the book more interesting, to me, but obviously that would reduce the charm and the meaning of this book.
One of the critics says the writer is a homosexual, because of the obsession with the description of male bodies, yes it's obsessive compared to that of female bodies.
Well, it was written centuries ago so it must have been shocking, that the women find pleasure without any regret or shame!
Normally these femme fatale stories end with the woman regretting her past, or getting punished.
Take Lolita, she is made to be happy by settling in the countryside as a wife (while Tanizaki's Naomi continues with her life style, that's what makes Tanizaki great)
Here, Fanny does not regret, but not only that she even gets rich, such a bad ass enemy of the (patriarchal ) society.
🔽 Where to buy 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Immortal Classics)
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Fanny Hill. Memorie di una donna di piacere (Italiano)
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