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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] f...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799[Describing a very ugly woman] 'I think I must for the rest refer my Reader to the Lady's Dressing Room, for [italics] In such a Case few Words are best, and Strepho...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan SwiftLady's Dressing-Room, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr E-e, seeing my Table covered with written Papers, told me, my Room resembled that of a Lawyer, and asked me Leave to read my Contemplations; to which I agreeing, he h...Mr E-e Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][a French drinking song]Unknown
1700-1799[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderman [italics] Barber [end italics], wherein there is ...Edmond Curll Matthew Pilkington[Life of Barber]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recommended me to him, said "Poor Creature! I suppose you ...Hans Sloane Laetitia Pilkington[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my Papers, cried, "Ay the [italics] Irish [end italics...Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody t...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][prison discharge document]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was pleased with my Sense of his Goodness to me; only he to...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, esq.Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[having been given some money by Samuel Richardson] 'I really was confunded, till, recollecting that I had read [italics] Pamela [end italics], and been told it was writt...Laetitia Pilkington Samuel RichardsonPamela, or Virtue RewardedPrint: Book
1700-1799'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], I sat down to read it, and found it so...Laetitia Pilkington Colley CibberEgotist, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799[LP gives the text of a poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'I sent these Lines to my dear Gentleman, who presently came to me, as I was once more in his Neighbourhood, - and in his che...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had no...Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][inscriptions]Manuscript: Graffito
1700-1799'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end...Laetitia Pilkington Eliza HaywoodFemale Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Anne Lefevre Dacier[translations of and notes on Homer]Print: Book
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Katherine PhilipsPoems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs Katherine...Print: Book
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Katherine Philips''in Memory of F.P. who died at Acton the 24 May 1...Print: Book
1700-1799'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who deserved the Name of a [italics] Writer [end italics];...Laetitia Pilkington Abraham Cowley[Poems]Print: Book


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