Lynda M Thompson The 'Scandalous Me...

Lynda M Thompson The 'Scandalous Memoirists': Constantia Phillips, Laetitia Pilkington and the Shame of 'publick fame'. Manchester: Manchester UP 2000 243 pp ISBN 0-7190-55733 $7495

Lynda M Thompson's novel book contributes to the ongoing discussion of "scandalous memoirs," the life writings of notorious women published in Great Britain during the eighteenth hundred Focusing on two mid-century writers, Constantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington, Thompson strips the biases that have obstructed many scholars from attending to these women as closely as they