'Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure' is the original title of which frequently banned book?
Memoirs v. Massachusetts Memoirs v. Massachusetts Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966), was the United States Supreme Court decision that attempted to clarify a holding regarding obscenity made a decade earlier in "Roth v. United States" (1957). Since the "Roth" ruling, to be declared obscene a work of literature had to be proven by censors to: 1) appeal to prurient interest, 2) be patently offensive, and 3) have no redeeming social value. The book in question in this case was "Fanny Hill" (or "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", 1749) by John Cleland and the Court held in "Memoirs v. Massachusetts" that,
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). Godwin felt it was his duty to edit and publish Wollstonecraft's unfinished works after her death in September 1797. A week after her funeral, he started on this project and a memoir of her life. In order to prepare to write the biography, he reread all of her works, spoke with her friends, and ordered