• Edmund Curll (c. 1675 – 11 December 1747) was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander...
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  • Curll is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edmund Curll (c.1675–1747), English bookseller and publisher Walter Curll or Walter Curle...
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  • London without taking a degree. He was supported by the London bookseller Edmund Curll, one of Alexander Pope's foes, who printed his collected works in 1728...
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  • favor of Edmund Curll but his luck was short lived. While Townshend fretted over how to convict Curll, John Ker appeared on the scene. Edmund Curll had met...
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  • parody written by Jonathan Swift in 1701. It was first published by Edmund Curll in 1710, against Swift's wishes. The book is a parody of Robert Boyle's...
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    School of Venus, or the Ladies Delight (1680). The London bookseller Edmund Curll was prosecuted in 1728 for producing an English translation. More recently...
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  • Four of the titles were published by 18th century controversialist Edmund Curll (c. 1675–1747). The earliest work in this genre seems to be Erotopolis:...
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    An early pioneer of the publication of erotic works in England was Edmund Curll (1675–1747), who published many of the Merryland books. These were an...
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    reader a commentary on the Tale and explanations of its references. Edmund Curll rushed out a Key to the work, and William Wotton offered up an "Answer"...
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  • died in a debtor's prison. While in the King's Bench Prison he sold to Edmund Curll the bookseller, a fellow-prisoner who was serving a sentence of five...
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    Remote Regions of the World Compendiously Methodiz'd, the second by Edmund Curll who had similarly written a "key" to Swift's Tale of a Tub in 1705) were...
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    All of these, however, were less vicious than the attack launched by Edmund Curll, a notoriously unscrupulous publisher, who produced his own pirate copy...
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    five-canto version of The Rape of the Lock in 1714, Ozell's publisher Edmund Curll seized the opportunity to profit from its popularity by retitling his...
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  • works were published by Edmund Curll. It is possible, even likely, that the name does not accurately represent the author, as Curll frequently acquired hack...
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    is a Life of Barry published in 1741 – 65 years after the events – by Edmund Curll, well known for his fanciful and inaccurate biographies. Barry was a...
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    manuscript copies for almost 80 years before it was first published by Edmund Curll in a very inferior form. A full version was not published until 1811...
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  • much further into the English common law. The conviction in 1727 of Edmund Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in her Smock...
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  • Alexander Pope Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons (a piracy by Edmund Curll, with forgeries included) Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence for Thirty...
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  • of the publication of erotic works in England was Edmund Curll (1675–1747). The conviction of Curll in 1727 for the publication of Venus in the Cloister...
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  • John Byrom returns to Britain to teach his own system of shorthand. Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior by publishing more of the poet's...
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  • London. It will be printed the following year. unknown date – Publisher Edmund Curll is convicted under English law for publishing an English translation...
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  • dramatist, actor-manager and Poet Laureate of Great Britain (born 1671) Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675) December 15 (burial) –...
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    declined and became known for pornography and prostitution. The publisher Edmund Curll lived at No. 2 during this time, and by 1740 the street held 8 pubs,...
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    of John Bull. In his mid-life, Arbuthnot, complaining of the work of Edmund Curll, among others, who commissioned and invented a biography as soon as an...
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    Delarivier Manley's final novel, which was later edited and published by Edmund Curll, is centred around her life before, during, and after her treacherous...
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    although smoothly enough written, deals chiefly with commonplaces. In 1721 Edmund Curll published a pirated edition of his works, and was brought before the...
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  • probably in a negative light. Delarivier Manley persuaded the publisher Edmund Curll to defer the publication; soon Manley met and reconciled with Gildon...
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    Flogging in Medicine and Venery. It was published by the English publisher Edmund Curll. It is the earliest printed work on the subject, giving accounts of a...
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  • 1716. The trial caused a sensation in London, where publishers such as Edmund Curll sold material proclaiming Wenham's innocence or guilt. One of the witnesses...
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  • back much further into English common law. The conviction in 1727 of Edmund Curll for the publication of Venus in the Cloister or the Nun in her Smock...
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