| Evidence: | 'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], I sat down to read it, and found it so full of Spirit, and Humour, that just as it had thrown me into a hearty fit of Laughing, a Clergyman entered, who asked me, what had I got new?' [LP was by now running a print and pamphlet shop] |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | From: 1 Jan 1743 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: her shop, possibly in St James's |
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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: | Colley Cibber |
| Title: | Egotist, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Pamphlet |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 19927 | |
| 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: | 210 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 210, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19927, accessed: 03 October 2023 | |
| Date of birth 1708 or 1709. LP was by now running a print and pamphlet shop. |
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