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John Cleland

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Born: September 23 1709

Died: 2222 01 17891789

John Cleland 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.

He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant; he was also a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London.

Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his dying father. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John.

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John Cleland

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Books from John Cleland

Fanny Hill. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Fifty Shades Trilogy Literary Companion: 14 Complete Romance Classics (including Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights)

The Olympia Reader: An Anthology of Erotic & Literary Classics

Memoirs of a Coxcomb

ESSENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLASSIC BANNED BOOKS: Adam Bede, Fanny Hill, Candide, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Awakening, Sister Carrie, Women In Love, Madame Bovary, And Many More…

BANNED! An Anthology of Banned Books (14 books)

Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown Exhibiting the Life of a Courtezan in the Most Fashionable Scenes of Dissipation Published by the Author of a Woman of Pleasure, Vol 2 of 2

Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar

Fanny Hill - Vol 2/2

50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol: 3

Romans Érotiques

John Cleland Erotica: Fanny Hill and Memoirs of a Coxcomb

Erotic Classics I: Kama Sutra, The Memoirs of Fanny Hill and Others

Los dominios de Venus: Antología de novelas eróticas (siglos XVIII-XIX)

50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die: Vol. 3

Memoirs of Fanny Hill

The Evolutions of Organization: Address to the Medical Students at the Opening of the Winter October University of Glasgow, Tues, October 26, 1880 (Classic Reprint)

Die Memoiren der Fanny Hill

Romance Collection, Vol.1

The Son of Fanny Hill