Description
This is among the highly disputed and forbidden novels in English literature, Fanny Hill is remarked as the first actual English prose obscenity. Flagrant for its resplendent picture of sexual deeds in all attainable ways, the story exposes the very rousing carnal delusions and collects them as one in a more tempting demeanor. Released in two portions in 1748 and 1749, the narrative was assailed for its lewd theme and was therefore proscribed and removed from printing, for its critical ethical standards while disseminating immorality and sexual lechery. It is no doubt an alluring, raunchy narrative made certain to inflame the flight of fancy and feelings. John Cleland was a British writer most popular as the creator of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. John Cleland was the first son of the Scot William Cleland and Lucy DuPass Cleland. He was born in Kingston on Thames in Surrey but was raised in London, where his father was first an official in the British Army and later a civil server. William Cleland was an acquaintance to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a consort or colleague of Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family is moneyed and lived in the greatest literary and picturesque societies of London. John Cleland attended Westminster School, but he stopped schooling or was ousted. His leaving was not for pecuniary causes, yet whatsoever misconduct or contention had brought to his leaving is undetermined. Historian J. H. Plumb guesses that Johns impish and petulant character was to denunciate, but whatsoever made John to depart, he worked at the British East India Company after quitting school. He started as a soldier and took all the way into the civil service of the company and thereafter resided in Bombay.