biography
pronunciation:
[klayland]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1709–89)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He studied at Westminster School, and after working and travelling abroad, published Fanny Hill, or the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750). A best-seller in its time, it achieved a second succès de scandale on its revival and prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act in 1963. He also practised journalism and playwriting, excelling at neither, and dabbled in Celtic philology. |
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