User:Ficaia/Editions of Fanny Hill

This is a list of historical editions of John Cleland's classic erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, often called Fanny Hill.

Translations
Justice has been rendered abroad to the merits of Cleland's novel by the numerous translations through which it has passed. By the 1880s it could be read, in a more or less curtailed form, in most of the leading languages of Europe, although Ashbee was not aware that it had then been done into Spanish.

French
The following list contains the French renderings, which are the most numerous; none of those, however, is complete, and none contains the passage above quoted.

German
It is known in Germany as Das Frauenzimmer von Bergnügen, and occupies the first volume of the Priapische Romane. The German translation is complete, and contains the suppressed passage.

Italian
There are two Italian renderings, one of which is said to be by Count Carlo Gozzi. Both have passed through several editions. The following is one:

La Meretrice Inglese o Avventure di Fanny Will Parigi 1861.

8vo.; size of letter-press 5 by 2¾ inches; pp. 95; 4 woodcuts. This version is translated from the French, and abbreviated even from that.

Portuguese
Finally, there is a Portuguese translation:

O Vôo da Innocencía ao auge Prostituição, ou Memorias de Miss Fanny, escriptos por ella mesma, 2 tomos em 1 volume, com 7 estampas.

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