… Pope was perfectly capable of playing the villain when it suited him. Such incidents as his poisoning of the pirate bookseller Edmund Curll in 1716 – and his own subsequent publicising of the act in print – remind us that the nurturing … Curll, see Pat Rogers, The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street (London: Reaktion, 2021). Besides the political contexts for Pope’s alternately congenial and …
… derives from a variety of sources, such as accounts of officeholders, minutes kept by vestries, sermons, prayer books, court proceedings, tithe maps and diaries, to name just a few (see the collation of church records for Earls …
… mise en place d’une surveillance des fréquentations des envoyés. Le plus important de ces fonds est dénommé The Office books of foreign correspondence et regroupe pays par pays les diverses pétitions, mémoires que les envoyés européens ont …