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John Cleland

Born

in Kingston upon Thames, The United Kingdom

September 24, 1709

Died

January 23, 1789

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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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.

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 h ...more

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Average rating: 3.27 · 13,968 ratings · 1,307 reviews · 310 distinct works • Similar authors

	Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 3.26 avg rating — 13,624 ratings — published 1748	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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… by John Cleland, Voltaire, Victor Hugo 3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Coxcomb by John Cleland, Hal Gladfelder (Editor) 2.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1751 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, Peter Sabor (Editor) 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1749 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BANNED! An Anthology of Banned Books (14 books) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erotic Tales by John Cleland, Erica Jong, Marquis de Sade 2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fanny Hill: Memoirs of A Coxcomb really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New memories of a woman of pleasure by John Cleland, John Mills 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Romans Érotiques 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...but we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.”
― John Cleland, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

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“He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.”
― John Cleland

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“Em resumo, há nos homens, quando eles se deixam guiar pelos olhos, uma tal credulidade da qual sua majestosa sabedoria não suspeita, fazendo que os mais avisados dentre eles sejam frequentemente enganados por nós.”
― John Cleland, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

tags: 17th-century, naivety

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Polls

What frequently challenged or banned book (or book about censorship) for adults/with adult themes should we read in July and August 2014?

Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland

17 votes, 39.5%

Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire

11 votes, 25.6%

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure

6 votes, 14.0%

Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada by Cleis Press

5 votes, 11.6%

Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer

4 votes, 9.3%

43 total votes

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