My Faults, My Follies
Helen Deutsch: Laetitia Pilkington, ‘Foot-ball of Fortune’, 17 July 2008
Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington
by Norma Clarke.
Faber, 364 pp., £20, February 2008,978 0 571 22428 9 Show More
by Norma Clarke.
Faber, 364 pp., £20, February 2008,
“... she is also a literary adventurer in the mode of Moll’s author, the Grub Street entrepreneur Daniel Defoe. After her heyday at White’s she had begun ‘a blank-verse tragedy, The Roman Father, based on an episode in Roman history in which the heroine, Virginia, her honour threatened by the advances of a corrupt tyrant, is killed by her ... ”