Her youngest son, Jack (John Carteret Pilkington
), also came back to her for support, with tales of mistreatment from their father. Jack was alleged by Isaac Reed
to have told Theophilus Cibber
(who...
Publishing
Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed
. It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Reception
Elizabeth Tollet
Sir Tanfield Leman
in the Monthly Review approached this volume with some gendered condescension (which may be the explanation for his finding ET
by implication excessively serious). He pronounced that she was not in the...
Textual Production
Laetitia Pilkington
The Bodleian
copy (shelf-mark 8vo Z 150 Art. B.S.) of the second London edition of volume one (1749) has Isaac Reed
's annotation and paste-in.
Pilkington, Laetitia. “Introduction”. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, edited by A. C., Jr Elias, University of Georgia Press, 1997, p. xv - lxii.
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Texts
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Poetical Works of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e. Editor Reed, Isaac, 1st ed., Printed for J. Williams, 1768, 1 vol.