• Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock, known in the original French as Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise (1683), is a work of...
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  • The Amours of Sainfroid and Eulalia or Venus in the Cloister is a pornographic book published in New York City in 1854, translated from the French Les...
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  • (pseudonym) – Venus in the Cloister; or, The Nun in her Smock (Vénus dans le cloître, ou la Religieuse en chemise) Joshua Barnes – Landgartha, or the Amazon...
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    fined for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace. This set a legal...
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  • Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock under the common law offence of disturbing the King's peace was the first conviction...
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  • publishing an English translation of Venus in the Cloister (in 1724) under the common law offence of disturbing the peace, setting a legal precedent for prosecutions...
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  • Preserv'd by Thomas Otway 1683 in literature – The London Jilt attributed to Alexander Oldys; Venus in the Cloister by the pseudonymous writer Abbé du Prat...
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  • the publication of erotic works in England was Edmund Curll (1675–1747). The conviction of Curll in 1727 for the publication of Venus in the Cloister...
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    literature Venus in the Cloister Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure A Spy on Mother Midnight. London: Printed for E. Penn. 1748 – via Internet Archive. "The Monthly...
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    From the precedent set by R. v. Curl (1729) following the publication of Venus in the Cloister. Hyde 1964, p. 14. findlaw 2016. Giesberg 2017. Beck 2003...
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