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...confident prosecutor, Assistant Attorney General John E. Sullivan, called but one witness in the effort to ban the book, while publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons enlisted the aid of five Boston-area English professors, including John M. Bullitt '43, Master of Quincy House...
...testimony Bullitt stated "The book is a deliberate work of art, not a great one by any means, but an effort to portray a complex character. It presents a theme common to the eighteenth century, the education of a woman as she learns the value of love...
...does it contain the type of language you would use over the breakfast table?" asked Sullivan in his cross-examination of Bullitt...
...John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, said yesterday that he has agreed to defend John Cleland's eighteenth-century novel on the basis of its "historical interest...
Another member of the English Department, who refused to testify for Fanny Hill when he was asked, said yesterday that he and other professors, including Bullitt, had received letters from G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher of the book, requesting their assistance. The mimeographed letter suggested that the book would be defended as being inferior to Henry Fielding's works, but better than those of Samuel Richardson...