Evidence: | 'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end italics].' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1742 and 31 Dec 1748 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: St James's area |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Laetitia Pilkington |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1708 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | clergyman's wife, divorced; poet |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Ireland |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [a French drinking song] |
Genre: | Poetry, Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ left by Lord Galway at her lodgings |
Record ID: | 19916 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Laetitia Pilkington | |
Editor: | A.C. Elias | |
Title: | Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 186 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 186, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19916, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Date of birth 1708 or 1709. Reading in order to translate. |
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