John Cleland

01 September 1710 - 23 January 1789

Standard Name: Cleland, John

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Elizabeth Sarah Gooch	He wanted to elope (possibly for financial motives), but she, afraid to deceive her mother, twice broke an assignation to meet him for this purpose. Then her mother found and read his letters, and carried...

Timeline

21 November 1748

John Cleland published the first volume of his soft-porn novel Fanny Hill.

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

1766

A pornographic work masquerading as a novel was published: Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown.

London, April. “Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 213-27.

223-5

Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

Texts

Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. G. Fenton, 1749, 2 vols.