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- Title
Laetitia Pilkington and the Mnemonic Self.
- Authors
Gerrard, Christine
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role memory plays in Laetitia Pilkington's Memoirs has been oddly underexplored and although Pilkington draws heavily upon biographical details of her life as Swift acolyte, scandalous divorcee and Grub Street demimondaine, she supplements personal memory with her ‘astonishing' memory for literary texts. It includes sets Pilkington's own prodigious textual memory, of which she often boasted, within the context of the long-standing educational practice of memorizing.
- Subjects
ACOLYTES; CLERGY; OCCUPATIONS; ABBOTS; MEMORY
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2019, Vol 70, Issue 295, p489
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgy095