Robert King Viscount Kingsborough

Standard Name: Kingsborough, Robert King,,, Viscount
Used Form: Lord Kingsborough

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Laetitia Pilkington
LP 's non-respectable situation as well as, it seems, her disposition, made it hard for her to form friendships with women. She always retained her devotion to Constantia Grierson , before and after the latter's...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Wollstonecraft
While employed as governess to Lord and Lady Kingsborough , MW worked on and completed a draft of her first novel, Mary.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
84
Occupation Mary Wollstonecraft
MW was employed as governess by Lord and Lady Kingsborough : at Mitchelstown near Cork in Ireland, and in Dublin.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
60, 64, 82-3
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
John Carteret Pilkington published LP 's letters to Lord Kingsborough in his Real Story, 1760.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
2: 360

Timeline

From : Arthur Young spent the time in Ireland (as...

Building item

From Summer 1776

Arthur Young spent the time in Ireland (as agent to Lord Kingsborough ) on which he based his Tour in Ireland, published in 1780.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
389
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
184n3

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