Record Number: 19944

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Your Lordship's poetry in my Praise I can never forget, and as it would be a Loss to the World if any Part of so justly an admired Author's Works shold be buried in Oblivion, take, oh World! the following lines:' [she reproduces the poem]

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: 31 Dec 1748

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Bishop Clayton

Title:

[poem]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19944

Source:

Print

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Editor:

A.C. Elias

Title:

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington

Place of Publication:

Athens GA

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

I

Page:

229

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=19944, accessed: 17 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth 1708 or 1709.