Record Number: 20008

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very respectfully, but could not help smiling, when I found it was the Letter I wrote for [italics] Tom Brush [end italics], neatly copied and directed to me, and that, lest it should miscarry, he had brought it himself.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: 31 Dec 1748

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: her shop - possibly in St James's

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:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Title:

[a love letter]

Genre:

n/a

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Letter

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
written by her, copied by the gentleman and returned to her

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20008

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:

244

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 244, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20008, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth 1708 or 1709. LP earnt money writing letters for others and had written this one for the gentleman, thinking it was for someone else.