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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Laetitia Pilkington William Shakespeare[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her memory. She told him] 'I could repeat not only all his ...Jonathan Swift Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington William ShakespeareMidsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1700-1799'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how many beautiful Images [italics] Milton [end italics]...Laetitia Pilkington John MiltonComus: A MasquePrint: Book
1700-1799'The following Ode of [italics] Horace [end italics] bearing some Similitude to my then present Circumstances, I took the Liberty of paraphrasing and sent it to my husban...Laetitia Pilkington HoraceOdesPrint: Book
1700-1799'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have eithe...Laetitia Pilkington Patrick DelanyFifteen Sermons upon Social DutiesPrint: Book
1700-1799[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pilkington says] 'I must beg my Reader's Pardon for the...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Learning will, I am sure, pardon me, as I solemnly decl...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[alteration to her poem on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...Matthew Pilkington Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Darling of the Muses'] 'Mr Worsdale shewed this Ballad ...James Worsdale Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and threatened Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics], if he ...Laetititia PilkingtonVerses on Counsellor CallaghanManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and threatened Mr [italics] Taafe [end italics], if he ...Laetititia PilkingtonVerses on Counsellor CallaghanManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [italics] Pilkington[end italics]'s Work to me, and swe...Matthew Pilkington Laetititia Pilkington[poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [italics] Pilkington[end italics]'s Work to me, and swe...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], as the eldest Son of ev'ry Priest was born a Priest, ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I told the Doctor, my Writings might amuse, but his made the World the wiser and the better, as I had had the Pleasure of reading them.'Laetitia Pilkington Stephen Hales[unknown]Print: Book


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