Record Number: 20009

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale came in, and snatched it from me, saying, he would send it himself to his old Friend [italics] Philip [end italics]. I could not get it from him, but as I remembered every syllable of it, I wrote it in a better Hand than that rough Draft I had given Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics], and having the Honour of his Correction, who is a fair and candid Critic, sent it again to him.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: 31 Dec 1748

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: at Laetitia Pilkington's house

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

James Worsdale

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1692

Socio-Economic Group:

Labourer (non-agricultural)

Occupation:

writer and libertine, born a pigment grinder's son

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Title:

To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

stolen
stolen from LP and passed off as his own

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20009

Source:

Print

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Editor:

A.C. Elias

Title:

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington

Place of Publication:

Athens GA

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

I

Page:

247

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 247, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20009, accessed: 12 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None