town house. Pleased with what she had written he soon began financially supporting both her and her son John. John bragged about the relationship and a rumor reached King that the Pilkingtons had spoken disrespectfully of him. King arrived at Laetitia's residence and demanded his letters back. As the letters had value, she and John copied them before returning the originals. The first two volumes of the Memoirs appeared in 1748, and a third volume was unfinished at her death, although her son, John Carteret Pilkington, had it published in 1754. One influence on the Memoirs is contemporary poet Alexander Pope; critic Annie Persons has displayed how Pilkington's Memoirs seek to "reconfigure literary hierarchies" by putting herself within Pope's literary history. Laetitia died on 29 July 1750, most likely of a bleeding ulcer, and was buried in Dublin. Some years after her death her son John published Sir Robert King's letters in an appendix to his autobiography, The Real Story of John Carteret Pilkington. Notes References Backscheider, Paula. "Inverting the Image of Swift's 'Triumfeminate'." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 4, No. 1, Women Writers of the Eighteenth Century (Spring/Summer 2004), pp. 37-71. JSTOR. Accessed 9 Sep. 2022. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/27793777> Clarke, Norma. Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington (Faber and Faber, 2008), . (Reviewed by Helen Deutsch in LRB, 17 July 2008: review, transcription.) Doody, Margaret Anne. "Swift Among the Women." The Yearbook of English Studies 18 (1998): 68—92. Elias, A. C., Jr. "Laetitia Pilkington," in Matthew, H.C.G. and Brian Harrison, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 44, 321–323. London: OUP, 2004. External links Laetitia Pilkington at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington Online reading and multiple ebook formats at Ex-classics 1709 births 1750 deaths 18th-century English poets 18th-century Irish poets 18th-century Irish women writers 18th-century Irish writers Anglo-Irish women poets Burials in Dublin (county) Deaths from ulcers Irish memoirists Irish people of Dutch descent Irish women poets People from County Dublin People from Cork (city) People imprisoned for debt Inmates of the Marshalsea Irish women memoirists Ghostwriters