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John Cleland

John Cleland was an English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill . He was the oldest son of William Cleland and Lucy Cleland. John Cleland grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant. William Cleland was a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed wealth and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcontent".

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