2008 "QUEEN OF THE WITS THE LIFE OF LAETITIA PILKINGTON" HARDBACK BOOK (P4)

2008 "QUEEN OF THE WITS THE LIFE OF LAETITIA PILKINGTON" HARDBACK BOOK (P4)

Great large 1ST EDITION biography hardback book from 2008 by Norma Clarke. Binding and pages inside are in great condition especially as the book is 17 years old. 

Poetess, fallen woman and wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Favoured by, among others, the newly celebrated Jonathan Swift in Ireland in the 1730s, she collected the stories and developed the brazen femininity that would be her only currency in London a decade later. Divorced by her husband after she was exposed as an adulteress, she led a life of precarious self-sufficiency. Through humour and intelligence and her skilful use of scandal, most notably in her Memoirs she survived on the very fringes of respectability. Norma Clarke's hugely rich and enjoyable biography tells of a woman determined to be known as a writer on equal terms with men in spite of Swift's dismissal of her as the most profligate whore in either kingdom. It brings to life a remarkable character, who embodied the scandal, energy and sadness of a time when literature, gossip and the lives they described were inseparable.

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