Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
1: 14-17, 20-1; 2: 378
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Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia Pilkington | After an elaborate courtship, Laetitia Van Lewen
married Matthew Pilkington
. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press. 1: 14-17, 20-1; 2: 378 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laetitia 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. Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press. 1: 88; 2: 474-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laetitia Pilkington | 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... |
Other Life Event | Mary Barber | |
Textual Production | Mary Barber | Somebody signing Swift
's name, possibly MB
herself, addressed to Queen Caroline
a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage. The name of Matthew Pilkington
, though not yet put forward, seems a natural... |
Textual Production | Laetitia Pilkington | |
Textual Production | Laetitia Pilkington | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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