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The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland
"This first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment"--
John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
First published in the middle of the 18th century, probably in 1749, John Cleland's "Memoir of woman of pleasure" has been in constant, though for the most part syrup dishes, circulation ever since. Editions, often bearing as a title the name of the books heroine, Fanny Hill, have been printed in English not only in Great Britain and the United States but also on the continent of Europe, and the novel has been translated into a majority of the major European languages. As has been the case with other frankly erotic novels, the text of "Memoirs of a woman of pleasure" has been altered, added to and bowdlerized in various editions. In preparing the present edition, copies of the novel in the British Museum, the Library of Congress, the New York public Library and several private libraries were consulted and compared. It is the publisher's belief that the text presented here is as close to the original as is possible to ascertain -- Publisher.
Fanny Hill in Bombay
A study of the life and work of the notorious English novelist. John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the d...
Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Title: Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)Author: John ClelandLanguage: English
Memoirs of an Oxford Scholar
John Cleland (1709-1789) was educated at the Westminster School. He spent his early adulthood in Smyrna as British Consul and in India as an employee of the British East India Company. He later returned to England where he devoted himself to the study of philology, writing essays on the nature of language and contributing columns to the Public Advertiser.
