Laetitia Pilkington

Constantia Crawley (later CG ) became (through her own efforts, said Mary Barber ) proficient in Latin, Greek, history, theology, philosophy and mathematics. Laetitia Pilkington says she also knew Hebrew (which Mary Delany doubted), and...

From her mid or late teens she studied midwifery with Laetitia Pilkington 's father, Dr John Van Lewen .

ML 's father, Richard Shakleton or Shackleton, from a family which had settled in Ireland from Yorkshire, was a schoolmaster at Ballitore School . Unusually for a Quaker, he had been educated at Trinity College

CG was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber and Laetitia Pilkington . Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift has been an element in preserving some memory...

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...

In the category of Irish wits she included Jonathan Swift , Constantia Grierson and Laetitia Pilkington . Though Pilkington's closeness to Swift was an important point in her favour, MD was still demonstrating a certain...

Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber , Constantia Grierson , an unidentified Mrs Sican , Mary Davys , and Laetitia Pilkington , a colleague of...

CG 's professional reputation during her lifetime was that of a prodigy. Even Laetitia Pilkington shared this view: her Learning appeared like the Gift poured out on the Apostles, of speaking all Languages, without the...

Early among printed comment on TCP 's Apology was An Oxford Scholar with The Parallel; or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared. Being remarks upon the memoirs of those two celebrated writers.

Critic Lynda M. Thompson argues that TCP and Laetitia Pilkington (her close predecessor in publication, regularly linked with her in contemporary gossip) were doing something quite new in revealing their transgressive sex lives and blaming...

He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen , though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...

After seven pages on grammar, she offers pattern letters: those in verse are in effect an anthology of epistolary poems by women, a patriotically generous selection of Irish writers (Mary Monck , Mary Barber

Against the trend of the times, RS aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste...

CG 's earliest poems were written to Laetitia Pilkington before either of them were married; compliments to Barber came later.

A Song by Laetitia Pilkington (which made its first appearance in the final edition of Robert Dodsley 's Collection of Poems in 1758 ascribed to Jabez Earle ) was later often mistakenly attributed to MB .