Evidence: | 'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'd her from the Vulgar, stood reading the paper I had stuck up, with Regard to writing Letters and Petitions.'
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1747 and 31 Dec 1748 | ||||||||||
Country: | France or Germany? | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Laetitia Pilkington's shop, possibly in St James's |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | France or Germany? |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | a lady, claiming aristocratic pedigree and great ill-use |
Author: | Laetitia Pilkington |
Title: | [notice in her shop window] |
Genre: | Ephemera |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Sheet |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 20020 | |
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: | 267 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 267, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20020, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
The long story occasioned by this act of reading is possibly wholly untrue |
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