Her story was that Adair was waiting for her to finish reading a book of his, to avoid leaving it with her. Furthermore, she claimed that Matthew had already tried several times to set her...
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Laetitia Pilkington
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...
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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/.
