The fascinating story of one of the Eighteenth-centurys most extraordinary women. Poetess fallen woman and wit Laetitia Pilkington spent her life as close to fame as she was near to ruin. Through humour and intelligence - and her skilful use of scandal most notably in her Memoirs - she survived on the very fringes of respectability. This biography tells of a woman determined to be known as a writer on equal terms with men.
