# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-curll
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:20:05.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-curll"
name: "Edmund Curll"
slug: "edmund-curll"
description: "Edmund Curll was an English bookseller and publisher. His name has become synonymous, through the attacks on him by Alexander Pope, with unscrupulous publication and publicity. Curll rose from poverty to wealth through his publishing, and he did this by approaching book printing in a mercenary and unscrupulous manner. By cashing in on scandals, publishing pornography, offering up patent medicine, using all publicity as good publicity, he managed a small empire of printing houses. He would publish high and low quality writing alike, so long as it sold. He was born in the West Country, and his late and incomplete recollections say that his father was a tradesman. He was an apprentice to a London bookseller in 1698 when he began his career."
tagline: "British publisher and bookseller"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1675"
deathDate: "1747-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.140245333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Curll"
    title: "Edmund Curll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Curll"
    title: "Edmund Curll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Curll"
    title: "Edmund Curll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Curll"
    title: "Edmund Curll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546924"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump