sales. Curll's practice was to hire impoverished authors for commissioned works on pornography, and his stable of hired authors was substantial. After Curll's death further books appeared by different authors, using a similar topographical metaphor for the female body. The last book in the genre is a parody of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) entitled La Souriciere. The Mousetrap. A Facetious and Sentimental Excursion through part of Austrian Flanders and France (1794) by "Timothy Touchit". Modern editions Stretzer, Thomas. Merryland. Published by Robin Hood House, 1932. Merryland. In v.3 of Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, edited by Alexander Pettit and Patrick Spedding. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2002. Merryland. New York: Kessinger Publishing, 2003. Pheuquewell, Roger. Travels to Merryland. Published by Black Scat Books, Pocket Erotica series, 2020. References 1740 novels Human body in popular culture