| Evidence: | 'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [italics] A parallel between Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Philips, written by an Oxford Scholar [end italics], as he tells us, himself, starving in a Garret: pray, Mr Scholar, deal ingenuously, did not [italics] Worsdale [end italics] hire you to writeit, because he was indolent'. [LP proceeds at length to refute the arguments of the papmhlet]
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Sep 1748 and 31 Dec 1748 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Dublin | ||||||||||
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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: | Ireland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Pamphlet |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20011 | |
| 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: | 248 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 248, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20011, accessed: 03 October 2023 | |
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