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CURLL, EDMUND (1675-1747)

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CURLL, See also:EDMUND (1675-1747) , See also:English bookseller, was See also:born in 1675 in the See also:west of See also:England. His parents were in humble circumstances. After being apprenticed to an See also:Exeter bookseller he came to See also:London and started business on his own See also:account, advertising himself by a See also:system of newspaper quarrels. His connexion with the anonymously-published See also:Court Poems in 1716 led to the See also:long See also:quarrel with See also:Pope, who took his revenge by immortalizing Curll in the Dunciad. Curll became notorious for his indecent publications, so much so that " Curlicism " was regarded as a synonym for See also:literary indecency. In 1716 and again in 1721 he had to appear at the See also:bar of the See also:House of Lords for See also:publishing See also:matter concerning its members. In 1725 he was convicted of publishing obscene books, and fined in 1728 for publishing The See also:Nun in her Smock and De Usu Flagrorum, while his Memoriesof See also:John See also:Ker of Kersland cost him an See also:hour in the See also:pillory. When Curll in 1735 announced the forthcoming publication of "Mr Pope's Literary See also:Correspondence," his stock, at Pope's instigation, was seized. It has since been proved that the publication was really instigated by Pope, who wanted an excuse to See also:print his letters, as he actually did (1737—1741) . In his f or ty years of business Curll published a See also:great variety of books, of which a very large number, fortunately, were quite See also:free from " Curlicisms." A See also:list of his publications contains, indeed, 167 See also:standard w Irks. He died on the ,lth of See also:December 1747. For Curll's relations with Pope, see the See also:Life of Pope, by See also:Sir See also:Leslie See also:Stephen in the English Men of Letters See also:series.

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