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John Cleland

1709 - 1789

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John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Cleland has received more than 217,325 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Cleland is the 2,441st most popular writer (down from 2,369th in 2019), the 1,871st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,794th in 2019) and the 211th most popular British Writer.

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  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Cleland ranks 2,441 out of 5,755. Before him are Dagny Juel, Vladimir Stasov, Mikha'il Na'ima, Dacia Maraini, Margit Sandemo, and Amélie Nothomb. After him are John Fletcher, Peter of Dusburg, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carmen Laforet, Immanuel Velikovsky, and A. S. Byatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, John Cleland ranks 18. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Johann Georg Gmelin, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. After him are Étienne de Silhouette, Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Charles Avison, and Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. Among people deceased in 1789, John Cleland ranks 11. Before him are Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Franz Xaver Richter, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau. After him are Paolo Renier, Petrus Camper, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Anders Dahl, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, and Jakob II Bernoulli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cleland ranks 1,871 out of 7,765. Before him are Elvis Costello (1954), Richard Henderson (1945), David Byrne (1952), Frank Dicksee (1853), Perry Anderson (1938), and Noel Gallagher (1967). After him are John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845), Eileen Atkins (1934), John Fletcher (1579), David Knopfler (1952), Eleanor of Woodstock (1318), and David Cox (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Cleland ranks 211. Before him are John Webster (1578), Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), George Meredith (1828), Jojo Moyes (1969), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), and Tom Sharpe (1928). After him are John Fletcher (1579), A. S. Byatt (1936), Terry Eagleton (1943), Renée Vivien (1877), Edward FitzGerald (1809), and Philip Kerr (1956).

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