John Cleland

Memoirs of a Coxcomb John Cleland

Cleland, who took an early retirement from pornagraphy after Fanny Hill's publication got him a brief stint in jail and a lifelong pension, wrote a few more works in his lifetime. This companion book, Memoirs of a Coxcomb, about a male prostitute and relying perhaps on the experiences of both Cleland and his father, was long suppressed, not seeing publication until many years after the expurgated Woman of Pleasure became available. www.victorian-erotica.org