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{{Infobox book
| title = Fanny Hill
| image = Fanny_Hill_1910_cover.jpg
| caption = The cover of the 1910 version
| author = John Cleland
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = The first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel. ''(Libertine Literature in England)''
| genre =
| publication date = 21 November 1748
| source page exists =
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'''''Fanny Hill''''' is John Cleland's classic [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky|erotic]] novel, originally published in 1748 under the title ''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure''.
The book is written as two (very long) letters from one middle-aged rich Englishwoman named Frances "Fanny" Hill to another woman who is identified only as "Madam", where Fanny proceeds to recount her early life with alleged complete honesty. This life was marked by the death of her parents, her times as alternatively a prostitute and a kept woman, and her love story with Charles, a former client and [[First Love]] to whom after many adventures she becomes [[Happily Married]]. Along these stories we are told very detailed and extensive recounts of ''numerous'' sexual escapades, not only Fanny's but also the ones of the people she met during the most scandalous stage of her life.
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