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Norma Clarke's "Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington" is intelligent and involving, giving its subject the close attention that its title promises. It presents the delights and insights of linear biography, from birth, to precocious reading habits, to Matthew, to Swift, to...

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Published in:TLS, the Times Literary Supplement the Times Literary Supplement, 2008-04 (5480), p.8-8
Main Author: Caines, Michael
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Authors
Autobiographies
Clarke, Norma
Eighteenth Century
English Literature
Nonfiction
Pilkington, Laetitia
Poets
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Summary:Norma Clarke's "Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington" is intelligent and involving, giving its subject the close attention that its title promises. It presents the delights and insights of linear biography, from birth, to precocious reading habits, to Matthew, to Swift, to disaster, to London, to White's, to "Memoirs", to death. (Quotes from original text)
ISSN:0307-661X
2517-7729