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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'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...Laetitia Pilkington[notice in her shop window]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italic...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeOn the Death of Mr CrashawPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I think I have scarce ever read Two better Lines than Mr POPE's Epitaph on this Prince of Philosophers [Newton; she then quotes the lines] His Inscription on Sir [italic...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander Pope[Inscription on monument of godfrey Kneller in Wes...Manuscript: Graffito
1700-1799[Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired as to whether it was her accounts] 'This Gentleman, w...an earl Laetitia Pilkington[Memoirs and Poems]Manuscript: volume
1700-1799'Mrs Barber, whose Name, at her earnest request, I omitted in my first Volume, and who was the Lady I mentioned to have been with me, at my first interview with the Dean ...Laetitia Pilkington Mary Barber[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Laetitia Pilkington Colley Cibber[alterations to her poem 'To Mr Cibber']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Colley CibberCharacter and Conduct of Cicero Considered Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [italics] Teddington [end italics] I open'd it, judging it...Laetitia Pilkington Mrs Meade[letter to LP's son, Jack]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Gentleman sat reading my first Volume. I did not inter...a gentleman Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italic...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poems sent by admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington XenophonSymposiumPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Originals of our Ideas of Beauty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEthic EpistlesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonInquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty a...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Laetitia Pilkington Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799'Had Mr [italics] Hutcheson [end italics] stop'd at this Book [his 'Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue'], by which he had acquired some Degree of...Edward Synge Francis HutchesonEssay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions an...Print: Book
1700-1799'[italics] Wollaston's [end italics] Religion of Nature Delineated, tho' frequently intermingled with Mathematical Proofs, is yet so plain, that it demonstrates the Autho...Laetitia Pilkington William WollastonReligion of Nature Delineated, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'my Curiosity led me to read the Letter before I examined the Contents of the Paper [plum cake from Jonathan Swift], which, to the best of my Knowledge, was this: Mada...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan Swift[a letter]Manuscript: Letter


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