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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 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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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.
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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".
John Cleland has 322 books on Goodreads with 36916 ratings. John Cleland’s most popular book is Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
Nov 4, 2007 · Profile of author John Cleland, whose novel Fanny Hill – Memoirs of an 18th Century Prostitute is one of the most notorious books in British literary history.
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