Queen Of The Wits: A Life Of Laetitia Pilkington

Queen Of The Wits: A Life Of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke


ISBN
9780571224289
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Dimensions
142 x 218mm

The fascinating story of one of the Eighteenth-century's most extraordinary women.

Prostitutes and poetess, fallen woman and society wit, Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Favoured by, among others, the celebrated Jonathan Swift, she was divorced by her husband after she was exposed as an adulteress. In London she survived through her humour and her intelligence - and her skilful use of scandal - on the very fringes of respectability.

Norma Clarke's hugely rich and enjoyable biography is the story of celebrity, sex and literature in the early eighteenth-century. It tells the life of a woman who lived opposite the smartest club in London, but was imprisoned for debt. Above all, it brings to life a woman who embodied the scandal, energy and sadness of a time when literature, gossip and the lives they described were inseparable.
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