Edmund Curll

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

As a child ET was later said to have been for ever a Scribling.

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...

Desperate for money, ET sold letters in her possession to Edmund Curll , including letters from Pope to Henry Cromwell .

Curll included three letters by ET in his unauthorised Atterburyana.

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).

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...