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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Marie de Sévigné | The same year another selection was translated and published by Edmund Curll
as Court Secrets; or, The Lady's Chronicle, historical and gallant. From the year 1671, to 1690. Extracted from the letters of Madame de... |
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Thomas | Curll
included three letters by Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press. |
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Justice | Edmund Curll
's unauthorised publication Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence included in its fourth, ragbag volume four letters from EJ
in St Petersburg to one of her London friends. Griffith, Reginald Harvey. Alexander Pope: A Bibliography. University of Texas Press. 2: 334 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Anthologization | Elizabeth Tollet | This survives in a manuscript copy, British Library
Harley MS 7316. 68. It was printed in Edmund Curll
's Whartoniana, September 1727, unattributed, together with two other attributed poems by ET
, and six... |
| death | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | She had been taken ill about six months before, but was well and cheerful the day before her stroke. There was an eclipse that day. She specified that she should be buried with her father... |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Thomas | Meanwhile, Thomas's mother ran a boarding-house, frequented, as was reported later, by a circle of leading Whig politicians, the architects of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Curll, Edmund et al. “The Life of Corinna. Written by Herself”. Pylades and Corinna, p. iv - lxxx. lv The Life of Corinna, purporting to be... |
| Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington
, and one answer to him... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Delarivier Manley | She apparently produced a large part of her manuscript in a week, and the rest in a couple of months, having entered into negotiations with Curll
in response to his threat that he was already... |
| Occupation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
acted as patron to a number of writers (all male so far as is known), most notably Richard Savage
and Henry Fielding
, but also Edward Young
and Samuel Boyse
. Books to which... |
| Publishing | Mary, Lady Chudleigh | Letters written by MLC
appeared posthumously in several compilations put out by Edmund Curll
: Whartoniana, 1727, the Poetical Works of Philip, Duke of Wharton
, 1731, and Pylades and Corinna, 1731, by... |
| Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | LMWM
's satirical mock-eclogues Monday, Thursday, and Friday were illicitly printed by Edmund Curll
as Court Poems. Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon. 109-10 |
| 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 |
Timeline
31 January 1707: Matthew Prior's Poems on Several Occasions...
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31 January 1707
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.