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Education | Constantia Grierson | Constantia Crawley (later CG
) became (through her own efforts, said Mary Barber
) proficient in Latin, Greek, history, theology, philosophy and mathematics. Laetitia Pilkington
says she also knew Hebrew (which Mary Delany
doubted), and... |
Education | Constantia Grierson | From her mid or late teens she studied midwifery with Laetitia Pilkington
's father, Dr John Van Lewen
. Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, pp. 33 -56. 39 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Leadbeater | ML
's father, Richard Shakleton
or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School
. Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College |
Friends, Associates | Jonathan Swift | Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber
, Constantia Grierson
, an unidentified Mrs Sican
, Mary Davys
, and Laetitia Pilkington
, a colleague of... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | In the category of Irish wits she included Jonathan Swift
, Constantia Grierson
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Though Pilkington's closeness to Swift
was an important point in her favour, MD
was still demonstrating a certain... |
Friends, Associates | Constantia Grierson | CG
was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift
has been an element in preserving some memory... |
Literary responses | Constantia Grierson | CG
's professional reputation during her lifetime was that of a prodigy. Even Laetitia Pilkington
shared this view: her Learning appeared like the Gift poured out on the Apostles, of speaking all Languages, without the... |
Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Early among printed comment on TCP
's Apology was An Oxford Scholar with The Parallel; or, Pilkington
and Phillips Compared. Being remarks upon the memoirs of those two celebrated writers. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | Critic Lynda M. Thompson
argues that TCP
and Laetitia Pilkington
(her close predecessor in publication, regularly linked with her in contemporary gossip) were doing something quite new in revealing their transgressive sex lives and blaming... |
Publishing | Mary Barber | He concluded, let Mrs Howard
know that I recommend you to the Queen
, Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, pp. 155 - 74. 170 |
Textual Features | Robert Southey | Against the trend of the times, RS
aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste... |
Textual Features | Dorothea Du Bois | After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck
, Mary Barber |
Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | CG
's earliest poems were written to Laetitia Pilkington
before either of them were married; compliments to Barber
came later. Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, pp. 33 -56. 33n3 Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999. 217, 219 |
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 Collection of Poems by Several Hands”. A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, Routledge/Thoemmes, 1997, pp. 120 -26. 192-3 |