The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland

Peter Sabor, Canada Research Chair at McGill University, is the co-general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (24 vols., in progress), co-editor of Samuel Richardson in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the editor of the Oxford World's Classic's edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985). Richard Terry was Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University. He was the co-editor of the Broadview edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and the author of monographs including The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature (2010), Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper (2005) and Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past (2001). Helen Williams is an Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at Northumbria University and a British Academy Innovation Fellow. She is the author of Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the co-editor, with Richard Terry, of the Broadview edition of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018).

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; A Note on the Edition; Chronology of Cleland's Life and Works; LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

'As someone who's written on Cleland and regularly teaches Memoirs, I'm delighted to have this collection of his correspondences, for all the reasons noted above, and especially for the many questions the letters answer about a complex and somewhat mysterious character. Cleland's correspondences will reward readers with a range of backgrounds and interests, while the editors' diligent scholarship and engaging prose supply necessary context for explaining, understanding, and interpreting a great many things about Cleland's life and work.' Aaron R. Hanlon, The Review of English Studies