Laetitia Pilkington
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The fame of the eighteenth-century Irishwoman
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.- BirthName: Laetitia Van Lewen
- Self-constructed: Mrs Meade
- Married: Pilkington
- Pseudonym: A Lady
Biography
Her elder brother died in infancy, and she was an only child for a number of years before her younger brother and sister were born.