John Cleland 
Memoirs of Fanny Hill 

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure – popularly known as Fanny Hill – is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748.

Written while the author was in debtors’ prison in London, it is considered ‘the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel’.

It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
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About the author

John Cleland (1709 – 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
(from wikipedia.org)