John Cleland
1709
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1789
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Great Britain
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Westminster School
occupation: writer, novelist, playwright, journalist
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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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