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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Fanny Hill
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(1749) The title now generally used for Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (1709–89). A modern unexpurgated edition was banned on its publication by Mayflower Books in 1963, after trials in London and Manchester. Reissued in 1970, this time without being prosecuted, it sold widely as the first piece of pornography openly available in British bookshops as a work of literature. Fanny is a poor country girl from Lancashire who describes her sexual adventures in London in a tone of almost pastoral innocence but with an unblushing wealth of sexual detail.
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