Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fanny Hill is written as a series of letters from Frances "Fanny" Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. Fanny Hill is a 15-year-old girl with a rudimentary education living in a small village near Liverpool. Shortly after she turns 15, both her parents die. Fanny ends up in London and the adventures begin. 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.” One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity.