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John cleland was a british writer most popular as the creator of fanny hill. Impoverished and virtually unknown, john cleland died in. John cleland 1709 1789 was an english novelist, most famousand infamousas the author of the erotic novel fanny hill. Fanny hill left the province and moved to london, england to conquer the capital. Peter sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in english, better known as fanny hill. Written in 1749 while cleland was in debtors prison in london, it is considered the first erotic novel, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.

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