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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 237,538 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Cleland is the 2,999th most popular writer (down from 2,433rd in 2019), the 2,188th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,866th in 2019) and the 249th most popular British Writer.

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  • 240k

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  • 59.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Cleland ranks 2,999 out of 7,302. Before him are Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Esaias Tegnér, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, Picander, Georges Schehadé, and Arctinus of Miletus. After him are Friedrich Wolf, John Perkins, Richard Dehmel, Lytton Strachey, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, and Roy Medvedev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1709, John Cleland ranks 19. Before him are Alexei Razumovsky, Charles de Brosses, Johann Georg Gmelin, Franz Xaver Richter, Étienne de Silhouette, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi. After him are Francesco Araja, Antonio Rinaldi, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Molla Vali Vidadi, and Charles Avison. Among people deceased in 1789, John Cleland ranks 15. Before him are Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Paolo Renier, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, and Petrus Camper. After him are Jakob II Bernoulli, Jafar Khan, Anders Dahl, Sayed Morad Khan, Jack Broughton, and Karl George Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cleland ranks 2,188 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Adams (1971), Gerald of Wales (1146), Wilfred Owen (1893), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Bernard Williams (1929), and John Miles (1949). After him are John Paul Jones (1747), Lytton Strachey (1880), Bob Peck (1945), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), and Paul Young (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Cleland ranks 249. Before him are Charles Kingsley (1819), Thomas Otway (1652), Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Richard Baxter (1615), and Wilfred Owen (1893). After him are Lytton Strachey (1880), Caroline Graham (1931), Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), and Alan Sillitoe (1928).

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