Fanny Hill Proceeding To Open Wednesday

The trial to determine the fate of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) in Massachusetts will open Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Suffolk County Superior Court, Pemberton Square, Boston.

State Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, at the request of the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission, has moved against John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel.

Judge Eugene A. Hudson handed down a preliminary order in February that the book is "obscene, impure, and in-banned under Commonwealth statutes in 1821.