Edmund Curll

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Standard Name: Curll, Edmund

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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...
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.
Publishing Elizabeth Thomas
Curll published in two volumes the recently-dead ET's correspondence with her late fiancé (and other works) under the intriguing title of Pylades and Corinna.
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
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...
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 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...
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
Anthologization Elizabeth Thomas
Curll included three letters by ET in his unauthorised Atterburyana.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press.
172
Monthly Catalogue, 1723-1730. Gregg Press.
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
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...
Publishing Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Philomela: or, Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Singer (now Rowe) was issued without permission by Edmund Curll , just a few months before the author's death.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
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
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...
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 Elizabeth Singer Rowe
This may have been in print before the end of 1738. It had a frontispiece portrait of ESR by George Vertue , which marks her fame with the attributes of crown, laurel, and trumpet.
Stecher, Henry F. Elizabeth Singer Rowe, the Poetess of Frome: A Study in Eighteenth-Century English Pietism. Herbert Lang.
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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.