John Cleland 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".
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1709 to 1789 · aged 79
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