John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Ple
Published in 1751, John Cleland's second novel (after the notorious Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is a witty and complex portrait of aristocratic British society in the mid-eighteenth century. Its y
"Gamesters and Highwaymen are generally very good to their Whores, but they are very Devils to their Wives."Raucous, lyrical, witty, ironic and tragic by turns, The Beggar's Opera and Polly--published
