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John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent".
John Cunningham Cleland (born 15 July 1952) is a retired British auto racing driver, best known for winning the British Touring Car Championship in 1989 and 1995. Born in Wishaw , Cleland raced autocross and hillclimb in the 1970s, and won his class in the Scottish Rally Championship in 1976 driving a Mitsubishi Colt . [1]
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel".
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John Cleland (born 1709—died Jan. 23, 1789, London) was an English novelist, known as the author of the notorious Fanny Hill; or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. After serving as a consul at Smyrna and later as an agent of the British East India Company in Bombay , Cleland became a penniless wanderer who drifted from place to place and was ...
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Fanny Hill, erotic novel by John Cleland, first published in two volumes in 1748–49 as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. An expurgated version published in 1750 chronicles the life of a London prostitute, describing with scatological and clinical precision many varieties of sexual behaviour.
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Born. in Kingston upon Thames, The United Kingdom. September 24, 1709. Died. January 23, 1789. Genre. Literature & Fiction. edit data. John Cleland (1709 – 1789) was an English novelist, most famous—and infamous—as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
Two Thundersaloon championships in 1986 & 1988, two British Touring Car Championship titles in 1989 & 1995, and some close run, down to the wire near misses made John Cleland a household name in motorsport circles. John’s reluctance to keep his thoughts to himself in the heat of the moment, a handful of infamous incidents and a pinch of ...
