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John Cleland
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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culture · English novelist (1709–1789) · writer · novelist · playwright · journalist · also John Cleland, Cleland
Born 24 September 1709 · Died 23 January 1789 · Q460861
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Died 1789-01-23.
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Born 1709-09-24.
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