Edmund Curll

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Standard Name: Curll, Edmund

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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 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...
Anthologization Elizabeth Thomas
Curll included three letters by ET in his unauthorised Atterburyana.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
172
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, 1922, 2 vols.
2: 334
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
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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, 1731, 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 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.
Publishing Delarivier Manley
J. H. presents himself as a man-midwife bringing DM 's dubious offspring to birth. She suppressed the Letters, saying later that only posthumous publication would be acceptable. They appeared again as A Stage-Coach Journey...
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, 1952.
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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, 2007.
50
He later paid her the...
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...

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 .
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
154: 82
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
27

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.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
68
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
114

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.
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, 2007.
108

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 .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
172
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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.