Fanny Hill has run into trouble in Massachusetts again. Massachusetts Attorney General Edward W. Brooke this week began legal proceedings to ban John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel Memoirs of a ...
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. In the long, complicated history of literary censorship in the United States, no one ...
"An original musical monodrama, based upon the book Memoirs of a woman of pleasure by John Cleland"--Container. Biographical notes, synopsis and lyrics on container. Performer(s): Lyrics by Charles ...
As Banned Books Week begins, it's a good time to examine one genre that frequently falls afoul of censors: romance. When it comes to books banned for obscenity, it's easy to assume that just the ...
"An original musical monodrama, based upon the book Memoirs of a woman of pleasure by John Cleland"--Container. Biographical notes, synopsis and lyrics on container. Performer(s): Lyrics by Charles ...