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". Wikipedia
Born: September 24, 1709, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Died: January 23, 1789 (age 79 years), London, United Kingdom
Parents: William Cleland and Lucy DuPass
Resting place: St Margaret Lothbury churchyard, City of London
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