| Evidence: | [Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for
[italics] In such a Case few Words are best,
and Strephon bids us guess the rest [end italics]
I really, till I saw this Wretch, imagined the Dean had only mustered up all the dirty Ideas in the World in one Piece, on Purpose to affront the Fair Sex, as he used humorously to stile old Beggar-women, and Cinder-Pickers.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1748 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England or Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 or Ireland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jonathan Swift |
| Title: | Lady's Dressing-Room, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19914 | |
| 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: | 178 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 178, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19914, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| Date of birth 1708 or 1709 |
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