The publisher of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill), filed his answer to Massachusetts action against the book yesterday morning in Suffolk County Superior Court.
Attorney Reuben Goodman '35, of Boston, who will share the defense of Fanny Hill against the proposed statewide ban with Attorney Charles I. Rembur '35, of New York City, presented G. P. Putnam's Sons' reply to a Feb. 10 order of notice.
Putnams' statement denied that the eighteenth-century novel by John Cleland is "obscene, impure, and indecent, as charged.
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