Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Laetitia Pilkington
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Standard Name: Pilkington, Laetitia
Birth Name: Laetitia Van Lewen
Married Name: Laetitia Pilkington
Self-constructed Name: Mrs Meade
The fame of the eighteenth-century Irishwoman LP
as a memoirist—often thought of as a courtesan memoirist and writer of secret history—has obscured her very considerable merit as a poet and satirist.