Edmund Curll

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Standard Name: Curll, Edmund

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
Desperate for money, ET sold letters in her possession to Edmund Curll , including letters from Pope to Henry Cromwell .
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
138
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
ET wrote a somewhat inaccurate account of Dryden 's death and funeral, which was published by Curll in Memoirs of Congreve on 11 August 1729 (dated 1730).
Dryden, John. The Letters of John Dryden: With Letters Addressed to Him. Editor Ward, Charles E., Duke University Press.
186
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
210
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Curll published one of the many prose attacks on Pope , who at once concluded it was written by ET: Codrus: Or, The Dunciad Dissected. Being the Finishing-Stroke.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
196
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
128
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Jane Barker
JB 's earliest-printed piece of fiction, the part-autobiographical Love Intrigues, or The History of . . . Bosvil and Galesia . . ., received unauthorised publication through Edmund Curll , as by a Young Lady.
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press.
171, 181-2
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
154
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, pp. 16-38.
24
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, p. xv - xliv.
xxix, xliv
Textual Production Jane Barker
Curll published a two-volume collection: The Entertaining Novels of Mrs. Jane Barker.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
154
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, p. xv - xliv.
xxxiv, xxxvii, 51n1
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
DM dated the preface to The Adventures of Rivella, her fictionalised autobiography or secret history published with Edmund Curll within the month.
In this year, scholar Paula McDowell notes, DM publicly renounced politics as...
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
As a child ET was later said to have been for ever a Scribling.
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx.
viii
The Life of Corinna, purporting to be written by a female friend, which prefaces the first volume of...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
The scandalous printer Edmund Curll alleged that DM had a fifth volume of the New Atalantis set up in print ready for publishing.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
xvi
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Curll , who well knew how viciously Pope had depicted ET in the Dunciad, twice attributed this answer to her, although he at first published it as by Mr Philips. Pope came to...
Textual Production Jane Barker
The title-page (followed by Carol Shiner Wilson 's editiion) says 1715. Such post-dating, says Kathryn King , is typical of Curll 's publishing practices.
Wilson, Carol Shiner, and Jane Barker. “Introduction”. The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Oxford University Press, p. xv - xliv.
xxiv, 177n1
King, Kathryn R. Jane Barker, Exile: A Political Career 1675-1725. Clarendon Press.
150
Exilius was at least partly written by 1687...
Textual Production Sarah Butler
Four months after the Jacobite rebellion fizzled out, Edmund Curll published the remarkable Irish Tales; or, Instructive Histories for the Happy Conduct of Life, attributed to a now-dead woman named SB .
Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
Scholarship on women's writing, as it advanced by leaps and bounds in the later twentieth century, generally attributed this work to DM . But the attribution rests largely on a perhaps opportunistic claim made in...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Edmund Curll , still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso 's Jerusalem, by the late ESR .
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
157
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
The title-page particularises her with mention of her residence at Frome in Somerset: the provincial setting suggests retirement. Elizabeth Johnson 's preface praises the author for defending women against the tyranny of men. This...
Textual Production Mary, Lady Chudleigh
These letters had been sold by Thomas to Edmund Curll . They are now in the Bodleian Library .
Mary, Lady Chudleigh,. “Introduction”. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh, edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Oxford University Press, p. xvii - xxxvi.
xxxv
Their publication in incongruous company would no doubt have deeply distressed MLC , had she...

Timeline

31 January 1707: Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions...

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31 January 1707

Matthew Prior 's Poems on Several Occasions were published illicitly, through Edmund Curll .

1710: The first edition appeared of Onania; or...

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1710

The first edition appeared of Onania; or The Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, a treatise against masturbation which mingles scare tactics with moral admonition; the reprints kept coming for decades.

June 1716: Edmund Curll (a publisher with a sharp eye...

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June 1716

Edmund Curll (a publisher with a sharp eye not only for sexual and political scandal but also for writing by women) marked the latest fashion craze by issuing The Hoop Petticoat. An Heroic comical Poem...

Late November 1717: Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany,...

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Late November 1717

Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany, an anthology of poems chiefly about dress, bearing the date 1718.

September 1727: Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned...

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September 1727

Edmund Curll issued (with no publisher mentioned in the colophon but with his name signed to the dedication) Whartoniana in two volumes, often referred to as the work of Philip, Duke of Wharton .

Texts

Curll, Edmund et al. Codrus. E. Curll, 1728.
Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, 1731, p. iv - lxxx.