First US editionIn 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.[11] 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.[12] Mr. Justice Douglas cited 5 primary defenses of the ruling:"1) Since the First Amendment forbids censorship of expression of ideas not linked with illegal action, Fanny Hill cannot be proscribed.2) Even under the prevailing view of the Roth test the book cannot be held to be obscene in view of substantial evidence showing that it has literary, historical, and social importance.3) Since there is no power under the First Amendment to control mere expression, the manner in which a book that concededly has social worth is advertised and sold is irrelevant.4) There is no basis in history for the view expressed in Roth that "obscene" speech is "outside" the protection of the First Amendment. 5) No interest of society justifies overriding the guarantees of free speech and press and establishing a regime of censorship. The art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann recommended the work in a letter for "its delicate sensitivities and noble ideas" expressed in "an elevated Pindaric style".[13]Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland.Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.