A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of Massachusetts

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1966-03-21

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Me. Justice Brennan announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which The Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Fortas join. *415 This is an obscenity case in which Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (commonly known as Fanny Hill), written by John Cleland in about 1750, was adjudged obscene in a proceeding that put on trial the…

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