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Produced by Richard Perry at London's Abbey Road Studio, with Geoff Emerick as engineer (who worked on several of the Beatles' best recordings), Fanny Hill is the group's hardest-rocking set, full of June Millington's big, raunchy guitar figures facing off with Nickey Barclay's rollicking keyboards, the smart but muscular rhythm section of Alice de Buhr on drums and Jean Millington on bass, and the foursome's stellar harmonies. While Fanny's second album, 1971's Charity Ball, was a solid and imaginative set whose title track became a minor hit single, their third album, 1972's Fanny Hill, truly caught them at the peak of their strength. He has published articles and book chapters on obscenity, copyright, criminal procedure, legal fictions, and the history of the common law.The third time really was the charm for Fanny, the pioneering all-female rock band who were the first act of their kind to win a major-label record deal in 1970. Simon Stern is Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto. This article was originally published in 2009. Massachusetts (1966), in which the Supreme Court ruled the book not to be obscene and articulated a legal standard for determining when material crossed the line into obscenity.ДЇanny Hill belongs to the same literary historical moment as Samuel RichardsonвЂ™s Clarissa (1747вЂ“1748), Tobias SmollettвЂ™s Roderick Random (1748), and Henry FieldingвЂ™s Tom Jones (1749). Almost 150 years later, PutnamвЂ™s 1963 publication of the book led to the decision in Memoirs v. Holmes (1821), the Supreme Court of Massachusetts upheld the conviction of individuals who had shown an illustration from the book. In one of the earliest obscenity cases in the United States, Commonwealth v. F anny HillВ led to early American obscenity case, legal standard for obscenity

In 1750 Griffiths released an expurgated edition of the book, titled The Memoirs of Fanny Hill the novel went through frequent illicit reprints (many of them illustrated) over the next two centuries. Some 70 years later, illustrations from later reprints of the book led to one of the earliest obscenity cases in the United States.Д¬leland reportedly sold the copyright to the book for 20 guineas to escape debtorвЂ™s prison, and the publisher, Ralph Griffiths, made a profit large enough to allow him to launch The Monthly Review, one of the first major literary periodicals in England.ДЄlthough Memoirs was published anonymously and with a pseudonymous imprint, Cleland and Griffiths were prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in November 1749 they managed, however, to avoid punishment. The novel describes scenes of lesbianism, flagellation, group sex, and male homosexuality, emphasizing throughout the size and appearance of the male genitalia. Fanny Hill author prosecuted for obscenity in Britain It is the first-person narrative of a young womanвЂ™s adventures as a prostitute after losing her virginity to a gentleman who claimed to be in love with her. Probably the most famous pornographic novel in English literature is John ClelandвЂ™s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, published in 17.

(Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain) Massachusetts (1966), in which the Supreme Court ruled the book not to be obscene and articulated a legal standard for determining when material crossed the line into obscenity. A 1963 publication of the book led to the decision in Memoirs v. It was later republished as The Memoirs of Fanny Hill.В In one of the earliest obscenity cases in the United States, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts upheld the conviction of individuals who had shown an illustration from the book.

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