| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, inst... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read much Shakespeare.' | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had him [Dean Swift] all to myself for near three hours, during which time he made me read to him the Annals of the... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | History of the Four Last Years of the Queen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Henry St John Bolingbroke | [letters to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [letters to Swift from various correspondents] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letters to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstand... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | 'a Libel on Dr Delany and a Certain Great Lord' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'borrowing a Hint from a Story in the [italics] Peruvian [end italics] Tales; I form'd from it the following Poem' [sh... | Laetitia Pilkington | Thomas-Simon Gueulette | Mille et une heures, contes peruviens | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | Laetitia Pilkington | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We supp'd at the Dean's, and I had been reading out, by his Command, some of his prosaic Work; he was pleased to say ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [prose works] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contr... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [a Horatian Ode] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [letter to Swift] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Verses on the Death of Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Dean then shew'd me the Poem he wrote on his own death; when I came to that Part of it,
[italics] Behold the f... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Life and Genuine Character of Dr Swift, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The following Ode of [italics] Horace [end italics] bearing some Similitude to my then present Circumstances, I took ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Horace | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Obse... | Laetitia Pilkington | Patrick Delany | Fifteen Sermons upon Social Duties | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pil... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Lea... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [alteration to her poem on 'Stella'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [it... | Laetitia Pilkington | Matthew Pilkington | [poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] D... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [commendatory verses by various admirers] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasur... | Laetitia Pilkington | Stephen Hales | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very h... | Laetitia Pilkington | [n/a] | Champion, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [books on Roman History] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for
[ital... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | Lady's Dressing-Room, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, t... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [a French drinking song] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over ... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [prison discharge document] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Samuel Richardson | Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [... | Laetitia Pilkington | Colley Cibber | Egotist, The | |
| 1700-1799 | [a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jack Pilkington | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter] | Laetitia Pilkington | Jack Pilkington | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but wa... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [inscriptions] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | Eliza Haywood | Female Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anne Lefevre Dacier | [translations of and notes on Homer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Katherine Philips | Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Katherine Philips | ''in Memory of F.P. who died at Acton the 24 May 1660 at 12 and a 1/2 of Age' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de... | Laetitia Pilkington | Abraham Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I cannot, except my own Countrywoman, Mrs [italics] Grierson [end italics], find out another female Writer, whose Wor... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Grierson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 just... | Laetitia Pilkington | Bishop Clayton | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dulness is not confined to them [Bishops], it descends to their Sons, witness our celebrated Comedy, [italics] The Su... | Laetitia Pilkington | Benjamin Hoadly | Suspicious Husband, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it wo... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [poetry by various correspondents] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities,... | Laetitia Pilkington | [n/a] | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '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 r... | Laetitia Pilkington | Laetitia Pilkington | [a love letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [ita... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those wi... | Laetitia Pilkington | Lord Kingsborough | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Windsor Forest | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Denham | Cooper's Hill | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury | Philosophical Rhapsody, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | On the Death of Mr Crashaw | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she t... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | [Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Westminster Abbey] | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Barber, whose Name, at her earnest request, I omitted in my first Volume, and who was the Lady I mentioned to hav... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mary Barber | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was in... | Laetitia Pilkington | Colley Cibber | [alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Meade | [letter to LP's son, Jack] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Min... | Laetitia Pilkington | [unknown] | [poems sent by admirers] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Xenophon | Symposium | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Inquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, An | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Alexander Pope | Ethic Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a... | Laetitia Pilkington | Francis Hutcheson | Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Pro... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Wollaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], w... | Laetitia Pilkington | Jonathan Swift | [a letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | ['Adventures of Eugenius' - veiled Autobiography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | [Psalms of David in Miltonic verse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Dean received from [italics] Spain [end italics], from one Mr [italics] Wogan [end italics], a green Velvet Bag, ... | Laetitia Pilkington | Charles Wogan | [letter on the subject of 'The Beggar's Opera'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr [italics] Woolaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, shews us powerfully, how much a Lye offends the... | Laetitia Pilkington | William Woolaston | Religion of Nature Delineated, The | Print: Book |