Matthew Pilkington

After an elaborate courtship, Laetitia Van Lewen married Matthew Pilkington .

LP 's husband disowned her after catching her with Robert Adair (a young surgeon who later achieved immortality as the hero of a popular ballad) in her bedroom late at night.

MB was a close friend of Constantia Grierson . Her friendship with Jonathan Swift endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband when the couple fell out...

MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington , and one answer to him...

MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .

Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.

Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...

She had already contributed a prologue for the one-act ballad opera A Cure for a Scold, which was written by James Worsdale and revised by her husband , and published this year.