WRITER

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 215,189 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John Cleland is the 2,998th most popular writer (down from 2,433rd in 2019), the 2,187th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,866th in 2019) and the 249th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Memoirs of a coxcomb
1751
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Women in fiction, Prostitution in fiction, Fiction
Memoirs of Fanny Hill was written in debtor's prison in 1784 and was the first modern erotic novel in English. A young woman, Fanny Hill, is forced by poverty to go into service, but is tricked into becoming a prostitute instead. She is then saved by her love, only to have his jealous father send him from the country some months later. She moves from one lover to the next, gaining maturity with each encounter, and nearing her...happy ending.
1963
Fanny Hill
2018

Page views of John Clelands by language

Over the past year John Cleland has had the most page views in the with 26,293 views, followed by Russian (2,432), and Japanese (2,357). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (56.01%), Welsh (44.82%), and West Frisian (37.93%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Cleland ranks 2,998 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 2,187 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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