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.

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Textual Production Mary Barber
A Song by Laetitia Pilkington (which made its first appearance in the final edition of Robert Dodsley 's Collection of Poems in 1758 ascribed to Jabez Earle ) was later often mistakenly attributed to MB .
Suarez, Michael F., and Robert Dodsley, editors. “Who’s Who in Robert Dodsley’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Collection of Poems by Several Hands</span&gt”;. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, pp. 120-6.
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