...Richard Terry; Helen Williams Our essay documents some of the issues we faced as modern editors of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49). We were conscious of the groundbreaking earlier editions of Peter Sabor and Peter Wagner, and also of the particular difficulties posed...

...Laura J. Rosenthal While appreciating the author’s skill, critics have nevertheless characterized John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as little more than a string of pornographic vignettes held together with the barest of plots and populated by superficial characters mechanically...

...Peter Sabor This essay envisages what a new scholarly edition of John Cleland’s notorious novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748 – 49), might provide. Drawing on digital resources such as ECCO, it could readily refer to the full range of Cleland’s numerous publications, and taking advantage...

...Norbert Schürer While John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , also known as Fanny Hill , seems to be mostly obsessed with sexual activity, it is actually just as much about the burgeoning free-market capitalist economy of mid- eighteenth-century England. In the explicit references...

...Hal Gladfelder In the wake of the court cases that led to the clearing for publication of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , a handful of publishers rushed other more or less erotic eighteenth-century novels into print, eager to cash in on the new celebrity of Fanny Hill (as it was usually known...

...Jaydeep Chipalkatti John Cleland’s novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill ) is a classic of eighteenth- century English erotica. This article contains a brief discussion of some of the linguistic and stylistic decisions taken by the author in his Marathi translation...

...Carolyn D. Williams Attempts to find connections between Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Cleland’s etymological tracts, in which he attempted to recover the ancient Celtic language, have, so far, met with mixed success. The most promising approach is to relate them to their broader contexts...

...Simon Stern This essay discusses John Cleland’s novel The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49), better known as Fanny Hill ), in the context of eighteenth-century obscenity law and the law of search and seizure. To explain why obscenity could have been treated as a criminal offense at all...

...Clorinda Donato This study charts the resonance of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , known more commonly as Fanny Hill , in the Italian peninsula in the long eighteenth century. It discusses and compares four different editions of Italian translations of the novel as well as its...

... a propitious moment for a new biography of John Cleland. Almost four decades have passed since the appearance of William H. Epstein’s John Cleland: Images of a Life (1974), and the intervening years have witnessed both a raft of critical writing about Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748 – ​­49...

... of Ancient and Modern Pederasty itself, one could only speculate as to the liter- ary relationship, if any, between Cleland’s luxuriantly detailed account of a sodomitical romp in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748 – 49) and whatever Cannon may have had to say about same-sex desire in his own writing...

... into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was up against in fashioning a persona in her text. Examining the complicated reception of the Memoirs also advances our discussion of Burney’s...

... rejoinder, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800). The female reader of the novel reads a novel about a woman reading a novel; and these mise en abymes,or embedded scenes of novel-reading, provide internal mirrors for how the reader ought to read Emma Courtney and Modern Philosophers.In what follows, I...

... eventually deepened into a warm appreciation by the end of her life. A broad sampling of her work from her early journals and The Witlings through her companion comedy The Woman-Hater (1802), later life-writings, and the Memoirs of Dr. Burney provides a more complete account of her relationship...

..., and Hester Thrale along with the lexicographer himself (figure 5). He does not bother to identify the second woman in the box; in fact, he does not seem to see her at all, so focused is he on seeing Johnson and the other well-known members of his circle. While Grego does admit that there is little...

... woman to the queen's private apartments (1814 – 17), her memoirs capture vividly the life of the court and were compared favorably with the Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay , published from 1842 to 1846, which chronicles that same period, when Frances Burney served Queen Charlotte as keeper...

... testifies to the duchess’ domestic expertise and economy in her retirement at Chambery; a further commentary on the reasons for the duchess’ choice of England as a place of refuge completes the work. As a whole, Memoires renders sympathetically the duchess’ plight as a woman unable to secure a workable...

... Karen Valihora York University James Noggle. The Temporality of Taste in Eighteenth-Century British Writing (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2012). Pp ix + 234. $110 • James Noggle’s book on taste opens with the poem “The Woman of Taste...

.... That Mrs. Vaughn clung on to externals dismayed Plymley, who was depressed to observe that she had no pleasure in looking forward & every little interval of comparative ease she was taken up as usual with worldly show & fashionable appearance. The dying woman gave valuable necklaces to Plymley s nieces...

... of the work (an aspect of the texts Lubey does not discuss). So, does Richardson want the reader of Pamela to get hot or not? Even Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) is more than mere por- nography, Lubey argues, for Cleland’s highly metaphorical representations of sexual scenes—as well...