Edmund Curll

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Standard Name: Curll, Edmund

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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
Publishing Jane Barker
It is dedicated to the Countess of Exeter , with a subsidiary address to the gentry of Lincolnshire. Barker's Entertaining Novels, six years later, includes a revised version in its second volume, and Barker...
Publishing Jane Barker
The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...
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/.
Publishing Susanna Centlivre
SC noted receipt of twenty guineas from Edmund Curll for the copyright of The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
152n11
Publishing Susanna Centlivre
Curll , the original publisher of this play the previous year, now poachedSC from her former publisher, Bernard Lintot , by doubling the sum she received for copyright.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
50
He later paid her the...
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Drake
Judith was married to James Drake : Fellow of the Royal Society , physician and writer on medicine and politics, and they had at least two children, one of each sex.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Judith Drake
...
Textual Production Judith Drake
The lengthy title lists the satirical sketches that the work contains.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The attribution to JD by name comes from a catalogue published by Edmund Curll in 1741 (which mentions James Drake as arranging the publication...
Publishing Martha Fowke
A second edition of MF 's and William Bond 's The Epistles of Clio and Strephon was published by Edmund Curll .
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
207
Publishing Martha Fowke
It was dedicated to Steele and had a prefatory essay by John Porter . It was several times re-issued (latterly by the disreputable publisher Edmund Curll ), and the title changed from edition to edition...
Publishing Martha Fowke
Curll (said by Eliza Haywood to have been wooed by Fowke as her publisher) may have been a sleeping partner in the earlier edition. The second (labelled as the third) also contained extraneous material.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
207
Reception Eliza Haywood
This collection of attacks on Pope and vindications of women was probably published by Edmund Curll . EH 's appearance in this volume (and her presentation as the friend and confidante of Curll) confirmed her...
Reception Eliza Haywood
He said nothing of EH 's writings, but referred disparagingly (and, for later scholars, misleadingly) to the Kirkall portrait. Curll 's Compleat Key to the Dunciad, published ten days after Pope's poem, made the...

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.