From her mid or late teens she studied midwifery with Laetitia Pilkington
's father, Dr John Van Lewen
.
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Laetitia Pilkington
LP
's father
died, some months after apparently falling with a surgical knife in his hand.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 461-2
Family and Intimate relationships
Laetitia Pilkington
LP
's father, John Van Lewen
, was the son of a Dutch physician who had settled in Dublin. He himself was a doctor who made his career as a man-midwife or obstetrician, an...
