John Cleland
Categories: 1709 births | 1789 deaths | Old Westminsters
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John Cleland (1709-1789) was an English novelist.
Cleland was born in London and educated at Westminster School, then travelled abroad in the service of the British East India Company. His fortunes dwindled, he became indebted and spent time in a debtor's prison. In 1749 he published "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," a work of unprecedented sexual explicitness for the time. The authorities drew up a warrant for his arrest and he pulled the book. He edited and republished the book a year later as the much toned down Fanny Hill. The controversial novel was unsurprisingly a best-seller, and became the subject of a famous court case two hundred years later.
Bibliography
- Fanny Hill (1750)
- Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751)
- The Surprises of Love (1764)de:John Cleland
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