Edmund Curll

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.

Her 281 subscribers, about 120 of them women, represented a complete cross-section of genteel provincial society. They included booksellers and a book club, and with some subscriptions for multiple copies accounted altogether for almost half...

It is dedicated to the Countess of Exeter , with a subsidiary address to the gentry of Lincolnshire. Barker's Entertaining Novels, six years later, includes a revised version in its second volume, and Barker...

The full title-page makes clear how this is not a novel as understood today: A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies; or Love and Virtue Recommended: In a Collection of Instructive Novels. Related After a Manner...

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.

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...

SC noted receipt of twenty guineas from Edmund Curll for the copyright of The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret.

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. He later paid her the...

He said nothing of EH 's writings, but referred disparagingly (and, for later scholars, misleadingly) to the Kirkall portrait. Curll 's Compleat Key to the Dunciad, published ten days after Pope's poem, made the...

This collection of attacks on Pope and vindications of women was probably published by Edmund Curll . EH 's appearance in this volume (and her presentation as the friend and confidante of Curll) confirmed her...

DM writes of herself as an expert in love, despite what she describes as her unalluring appearance. She presents herself, however, through men's eyes and as a topic of male gossip (in contrast with the...

These letters had been sold by Thomas to Edmund Curll . They are now in the Bodleian Library . Their publication in incongruous company would no doubt have deeply distressed MLC , had she...

Edmund Curll , still cashing in, published Select Translations from Tasso 's Jerusalem, by the late ESR .

The lengthy title lists the satirical sketches that the work contains. The attribution to JD by name comes from a catalogue published by Edmund Curll in 1741 (which mentions James Drake as arranging the publication...

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...