Matthew Pilkington

Standard Name: Pilkington, Matthew

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Laetitia Pilkington
LP 's husband disowned her after catching her with Robert Adair (a young surgeon who later achieved immortality as the hero of a popular ballad) in her bedroom late at night.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
1: 88; 2: 474-6
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Laetitia Pilkington
After an elaborate courtship, Laetitia Van Lewen married Matthew Pilkington .
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., Jr, University of Georgia Press, 1997, 2 vols.
1: 14-17, 20-1; 2: 378
Friends, Associates Mary Barber
MB was a close friend of Constantia Grierson . Her friendship with Jonathan Swift endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband when the couple fell out...
Intertextuality and Influence Laetitia Pilkington
MP's work was controversial from the beginning. It became the topic of newspaper paragraphs and of pamphlets. Several answers to it seem to have been written by Matthew Pilkington , and one answer to him...
Other Life Event Mary Barber
MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
32
, 1979, pp. 101-24.
119
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
She had already contributed a prologue for the one-act ballad opera A Cure for a Scold, which was written by James Worsdale and revised by her husband , and published this year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Mary Barber
Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.
The name of Matthew Pilkington , though not yet put forward, seems a natural...

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