NMLP P-042577 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)

John Cleland · 'G. Fenton' in the Strand, London — a false imprint for Fenton and Ralph Griffiths; printed by Thomas Parker · 1749

The decisive textual point of the true first is that it contains an important two-paragraph description of a male homosexual encounter that was deleted from all subsequent editions (Peter Sabor); its absence rules out the first

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042577 for "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill)" by John Cleland (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042577, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).