'Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure' is the original title of which frequently banned book?
"published in Britain. In 1963, Putnam published the book in the United States under the title ""John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"". This edition was also immediately banned for obscenity in Massachusetts, after a mother complained to the state's Obscene Literature Control Commission. The publisher's challenge to the ban went up to the Supreme Court. In a landmark decision in 1966, the United States Supreme Court ruled in ""Memoirs v. Massachusetts"" that ""Fanny Hill"" did not meet the Roth standard for obscenity. Mr. Justice Douglas cited 5 primary defenses of the ruling: ""1) Since the First Amendment forbids"
"by John Cleland first published in England as ""Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"". It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The authors were charged with ""corrupting the King's subjects."" When large-scale excavations of Pompeii were undertaken in the 1860s, much of the erotic art of the Romans came to light, shocking the Victorians who saw themselves as the intellectual heirs of the Roman Empire. They did not know what to do with the frank depictions of sexuality and endeavored to hide them away from everyone but upper-class scholars. The moveable objects were locked away"
"John Crosby were imprisoned for ""exhibiting [not selling] to sundry persons a certain lewd and indecent book, containing very lewd and obscene pictures of engravings"". Sellers of the novel such as Peter Holmes was imprisoned and charged with ""did utter, publish and deliver to one [name]; a certain lewd, wicked, scandalous, infamous and obscene print, on paper, was contained in a certain printed book then and there uttered, [2] published and delivered by him said Peter Holmes intitled ""Memoirs of a Woman Of Pleasure"" to manifest corruption and subversion of youth, and other good citizens ... "" None of the"
"1970 in the United Kingdom. However, in 1966 it became the subject of a famous US Supreme Court judgment 383 US 413 ""A Book Named ""John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts"", holding that under the US Constitution a modicum of merit precluded its condemnation as obscene. In fact, the novel is now regarded as a ""stylistic tour de force"" and as a participant in the ""making legible the bourgeois remapping of certain categories constitutive of 'woman,' and then exposing that remapping as ludicrous"" (Gautier x). It has exceptionally lively style, profoundly playful and"
"under the common law offence of disturbing the peace appears to be the first conviction for obscenity in the United Kingdom, and set a legal precedent for other convictions. ""Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"" (later abridged and renamed ""Fanny Hill"") was written in 1748 by John Cleland. It was scandalous for depicting a woman, the narrator, enjoying and even reveling in sexual acts with no dire moral or physical consequences. The text is hardly explicit as Cleland wrote the entire book using euphemisms for sex acts and body parts, employing 50 different ones just for the term penis. Cleland"
"and only you know about them. Judy Blume states in her book ""Places I Never Meant to Be"" this was the only book she has written she has voluntarily censored. In the original draft submitted to her editor, the character Davey masturbates while thinking about Wolf. Her editor pointed out the book was likely to be read by many more young readers if the scene was left out. After agonizing over the decision, Blume agreed and removed the passage. This book is on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number 89."
"of them being banned in Bangladesh and India. ""Amar Meyebela"" (""My Girlhood"", 2002), the first volume of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi government in 1999 for ""reckless comments"" against Islam and the prophet Mohammad. ""Utal Hawa"" (""Wild Wind""), the second part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2002. ""Ka"" (""Speak up""), the third part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi High Court in 2003. Under pressure from Indian Muslim activists, the book, which was published in West Bengal as ""Dwikhandita"", was banned there also; some 3,000 copies were seized immediately. The decision"
"not-yet-canonised Joan of Arc (""the Maid of Orleans""), the poem was outlawed, burned and banned throughout a great portion of Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Containing mockery and satirical commentary on the life and antics of its subject, the poem itself has variously been described as ""bawdy"" and ""licentious"". Despite the often sexist and indecent contents of the text, its notoriety and contraband status made it one of the most widely read texts concerning Joan of Arc for several centuries. Circulating throughout the banned regions by often surreptitious means, the book was read by a large number of"
"with ""Tropic of Cancer"", were boosted by the controversy surrounding their censorship, with complaints against Miller and his publisher on charges of pornography. In the 1940s and 1950s, Miller’s books were hard to find and expensive. The banned books were occasionally smuggled into the US, although they were often seized by Customs. In 1944, accompanied by his soon-to-be third wife Janina Martha Lepska, Miller read excerpts from ""Tropic of Capricorn"" and ""Black Spring"" at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. ""Tropic of Capricorn"" was banned in the United States until a 1961 Justice Department ruling declared that its contents"
"Lonely Girl"" (1962) and ""Girls in Their Married Bliss"" (1964). Shortly after their publication, these books were banned and, in some cases burned, in her native country due to their frank portrayals of the sex lives of their characters. In the 1960s, she was a patient of R.D. Laing: ""I thought he might be able to help me. He couldn't do that – he was too mad himself – but he opened doors"", she later said. Her novel, ""A Pagan Place"" (1970), was about her repressive childhood. Her parents were vehemently against all things related to literature; her mother strongly"
"2005) and committed to Fleet Prison, where he remained for over a year. It was while he was in prison that Cleland finalised ""Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."" The text probably existed in manuscript for a number of years before Cleland developed it for publication. The novel was published in two instalments, in November 1748 and February 1749. In March of that year, he was released from prison. In November 1749, Cleland was arrested again, along with the publishers and printer of ""Fanny Hill."" In court, Cleland disavowed the novel and said that he could only ""wish, from my"
"was replaced by a twelve-year ban (and later a five-year ban), this did little to assist the distribution of short-lived works. In the 1980s a new Censorship of Publications Board composed of a body of retired judges started banning books afresh, among them works by Angela Carter; Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex; and various academic volumes dealing with erotic Classical art. The ban was upheld against the protests of the Writers' Union. A member of the Senior Council offered to take up the Union's cause on a pro bono basis, on the grounds that the Board were interfering with"
"her safe sex kit compulsory. It was for her work inspecting brothels in Paris and in the Somme, that she was decorated by the French. In 1917 she and several other New Zealand nurses were Mentioned in Despatches by General Sir Archibald Murray Ironically, in New Zealand, her exploits were considered such that her name, on pain of a £100 fine, could not be published. However, her activities could be published. Similar ironies were found overseas--her 1922 book, ""Safe Marriage: A Return to Sanity"", was banned in New Zealand, but published in both Australia and Britain. In the latter, it"
"a conviction for mailing and delivery of a newspaper called the 'Chicago Dispatch,' containing ""obscene, lewd, lascivious, and indecent materials"", which was later upheld in several cases. One of these was ""A Book Named ""John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"""" v. Attorney General of Com. of Massachusetts, ""383 U.S. 413 (1966)"" wherein the book ""Fanny Hill"", written by John Cleland c. 1760, was judged to be obscene in a proceeding that put the book itself on trial rather than its publisher. Another was ""Kaplan v. California, 413 U.S. 115 (1973)"" whereby the court most famously determined that ""Obscene"
"Memoirs of Hecate County Memoirs of Hecate County is a work of fiction by Edmund Wilson, first published in 1946, but banned in the United States until 1959, when it was reissued with minor revisions by the author. Although it is sometimes described as a novel, the only link between the six stories is the narrator. The book was published by Doubleday in March 1946, and about 60,000 copies were sold. In July, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice lodged a complaint, and 130 copies were seized from four bookstores owned by Doubleday and from the New"
"coming decades it was widely anthologised, and became one of her most known works, besides ""Angarey"" which remained banned for several decades. Years later, she mentioned in detail the court trial in her noted memoir, ""Kaghazi Hai Pairahan"" (A Life in Words: Memoir). Though it received attention for its suggestion of lesbianism, it also deals with the insulated and suffocating life of a neglected wife in the feudal society. It became a landmark for its early depiction of sex, still a taboo in modern Indian literature, let alone Urdu literature. The story is told from the point of view of"
"banned the book from the county's publicly funded schools and libraries. It was burned in Salinas on two different occasions. In 2003, a school board in Mississippi banned it on the grounds of profanity. According to the American Library Association Steinbeck was one of the ten most frequently banned authors from 1990 to 2004, with ""Of Mice and Men"" ranking sixth out of 100 such books in the United States. The award of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature to Steinbeck was controversial in the United States. The award citation lauded Steinbeck ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as"
"simply reflect Cleland's knowledge of his friend's research, and the opportunity to use it in a novel that had a rare explicitness for the time. John Cleland John Cleland (; ""baptised"" 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known as the author of ""Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"". James Boswell called him ""a sly, old malcontent"". John Cleland was the oldest son of the Scot William Cleland (1673/4 – 1741) and Lucy Cleland (née DuPass). He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where"
"often accompanied by illustrations and served as political commentary for their author. The English answer to this was ""Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"" (later abridged and renamed ""Fanny Hill"") written in 1748 by John Cleland. While the text satirised the literary conventions and fashionable manners of 18th century England, it was more scandalous for depicting a woman, the narrator, enjoying and even reveling in sexual acts with no dire moral or physical consequences. The text is hardly explicit as Cleland wrote the entire book using euphemisms for sex acts and body parts, employing 50 different ones just for the"
"had also been banned in the US were published by Grove Press: ""Black Spring"", ""Tropic of Capricorn"", ""Quiet Days in Clichy"", ""Sexus"", ""Plexus"" and ""Nexus"". Excerpts from some of these banned books, including ""Tropic of Cancer"", ""Black Spring"" and ""Sexus"", were first published in the US by New Directions in ""The Henry Miller Reader"" in 1959. In addition to his literary abilities, Miller produced numerous watercolor paintings and wrote books on this field. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more"
"scenes. ""I wrote only two sexy passages,"" she remarked, ""and my publishers took both of them out. They put in ellipses instead. In those days, you know, you could solve everything with an ellipsis."" Despite its banning, ""Forever Amber"" was the best-selling US novel of the 1940s. It sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release, and went on to sell over three million copies. ""Forever Amber"" was also responsible for popularizing ""Amber"" as a given name for girls in the 20th century. The book was condemned by the Catholic Church for indecency, which helped to make it"
"banned by Bill Hastings, the chief censor in New Zealand. According to Hastings, it was one of the most graphic T-shirts he had ever seen. The shirt displayed an image of a mostly nude Roman Catholic nun masturbating, along with the text ""Jesus is a Cunt"". In 2008 ""The Peaceful Pill Handbook"", a book explaining how to carry out euthanasia, was initially banned by the OFLC since it was deemed objectionable. In May 2008, an edited version of the book was allowed for sale if sealed and an indication of the censorship classification was displayed. Philip Nitschke, its author, had"
"fight against literary censorship was fought mainly by isolated figures. Seán Ó Faoláin, perhaps the most vociferous critic of the censorship laws, wrote: 'Our Censorship...tries to keep the mind in a state of perpetual adolescence in the midst of all the influences that must, in spite of it, pour in from the adult world.' Among the first 13 books to be banned (announced in the ""Iris Oifigúil"", in May 1930) were ""Point Counter Point"" by Aldous Huxley, ""The Well of Loneliness"" by Radclyffe Hall and several books on sex and marriage by Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes. Surprisingly, none of"
"in prison in 1651, before receiving her death sentence. In 1650, William Pynchon became infamous for writing the New World's first banned book. In 1649, Pynchon found time to write a book, ""The Meritous Price of Our Redemption"", a theological study that was published in London in 1650. Several copies made it back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and its capital, Boston, which, this time reacted with rage to Pynchon rather than with support. For his critical attitude toward Massachusetts' Calvinist Puritanism, Pynchon was accused of heresy, and his book was burned on the Boston Common. Only four copies survived."
"Hemingway's ""A Moveable Feast"". Patrons could buy or borrow books like D. H. Lawrence's controversial ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"", which had been banned in Britain and the United States. Beach published Joyce's controversial book ""Ulysses"" in 1922. It, too, was banned in the United States and Britain. Later editions were also published under the Shakespeare and Company imprint. She also encouraged the publication in 1923, and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"". The original Shakespeare and Company closed in December 1941 during the German occupation of France in World War II. It has been suggested that"
"James Joyce's writings were ever banned by the Board, while copies of his works were burnt by the British Customs, and ""Ulysses"" was banned in the U.S. for several years. The Emergency Powers Act 1939 contained provisions for the censorship of newspapers and periodicals during World War II. In 1942 Eric Cross' book ""The Tailor and Ansty"" was banned by the Board. The book was a collection of stories and sayings from an old country tailor called Timothy Buckley and his wife Anastasia that the author had recorded. Although they were exactly the type of Irish people romanticised by de"
"of the guests. In 1921, Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, had opposed a bill that would have criminalised lesbianism on the grounds that ""of every thousand women ... 999 have never even heard a whisper of these practices"". In reality, awareness of lesbianism had been gradually increasing since World War I, but it was still a subject most people had never heard of, or perhaps just preferred to ignore. ""The Well of Loneliness"" made sexual inversion a subject of household conversation for the first time. The banning of the book drew so much attention to the very"
"1976. Many of Steinbeck's works are required reading in American high schools. In the United Kingdom, ""Of Mice and Men"" is one of the key texts used by the examining body AQA for its English Literature GCSE. A study by the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Literature in the United States found that ""Of Mice and Men"" was one of the ten most frequently read books in public high schools. Contra-wise, Steinbeck's works have been frequently banned in the United States. ""The Grapes of Wrath"" was banned by school boards: in August 1939, Kern County Board of Supervisors"
"promptly banned by librarians in Massachusetts in March of the same year. The book was banned due to Twain's frequent use of the word “nigger” as well as the novel being described as “racially insensitive,” as well as “perpetuat[ing] racism.” It has since, and still remains among the top 100 most challenged books up to date. In 1915, architect William Sanger was charged under New York law for disseminating contraceptive information. His wife Margaret Sanger was similarly charged in 1915 for her work ""The Woman Rebel"". Sanger circulated this work through the U.S. postal service, effectively violating the Comstock Law."
"of World War I, and the story of the two lovers, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, includes graphic details of a childbirth gone awry. This story strays greatly from traditionalist literature, the majority of American literature at the time, which depicted good prevailing over evil. Some cities, including Boston, banned ""A Farewell to Arms"" in 1929, labeling the book ""salacious."" In addition, Boston in the 1920s censored other novels such as ""The American Mercury"", ""Elmer Gantry"", ""An American Tragedy"", ""Strange Interlude"", and ""Lady Chatterley’s Lover"". The rise of censorship in Boston aroused local opposition. The Harvard Crimson in 1929 wrote,"
"her books, covering themes such as sex education, birth control and contraception appeared on the official list of damaging and undesirable publications. Nevertheless, as early as 1933 her publisher reissued her booklet ""Pregnancy Prevention"" (""""Verhütung der Schwangerschaft""""): the text was unchanged, but the title had been changed to ""Race hygiene, sterilisation and descendant restriction"" (""""Rassenhygiene, Sterilisation und Nachkommensbeschränkung""""). According to one source the Office for Public Health withdrew her authorisation on 12 October 1937. She nevertheless remained in Germany, sustained her private medical practice and continued to provide birth-control advice. War ended in May 1945 together with the Nazi regime"
"to remove anticensorship pamphlets from his classroom's door that had been posted in observance of Banned Books Week. The pamphlet in question was a list of books that had been challenged or banned in schools, libraries and bookstores around the country during the late 1990s; these books include several revered and widely read American works, such as ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", ""The Color Purple"", ""Of Mice and Men"" and ""Death of a Salesman"", but also include highly sexualized or ""vulgar"" books that the US Supreme Court found legal to exclude from public schools in the 1982 case of Board of"
"time, Jacqueline Susann's similarly themed novel ""Valley of the Dolls"" (1966) had already become a huge bestseller and a hit film, and Collins' novel was accepted. Within a week of its publication, ""The World Is Full of Married Men"" made the best-seller list. The book was a hit in both the United Kingdom and the U.S., but was banned in Australia. Collins' publishers at the time, W.H. Allen, told her that unless she took the ""four-letter words"" out, the book would be banned in Australia. Collins proceeded in taking the four-letter words out and it was still banned in Australia."