John Cleland

British racecar driver

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Born: 1709
Died: 1789
Works: 57

Top works

Memoirs of a coxcomb
Titus Vespasian:b
Nouvelle traduction de Woman of pleasur, ou, Fille de joie
View of a literary plan, for the retrieval of the antient Celtic
Mémoires de Fanny Hill, Femme de Plaisir

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1709-09-24
Active to: 1789-01-23

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Listeners: 154
Total plays: 726

John Cleland (baptised 24 September 1709 – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland (1673/4 – 1741) and Lucy Cleland (née DuPass). 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. William Cleland was a friend to Alexander Pope <a href="https://www.las

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Quotes

“Truth! stark naked truth, is the word, and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze-wrapper on it.”
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
“I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloyed and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same, whatever variety of forms and modes the situations are susceptible of, there is no escaping a repetition of near the same images, the same figures, the same expressions.”
“I feeling pretty sensibly that it was not going by the right door and knocking desperately at the wrong one, I told him of it: "Pooh," says he "my dear, any port in a storm."”

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