Jonathan Swift

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

US reviews were good. C. J. Rolo in the Atlantic Monthly called the book a scorching indictment of a hierarchical society, predicting that the blandly devastating satire will especially regale those well versed in the...

This book made Yeats liken ES to Swift for her passion ennobled by intensity, by endurance, by wisdom. Her Times obituary called these poems Sitwell's The Waste Land, suggesting that despite her still...

According to a delighted Hervey, Pope was infuriated. Swift thought the Verses were badly written. Montagu's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart thought that for high-born writers to jeer at Pope's family was shameful. On the whole...

Reviewers in general were impressed. The Gentleman's Magazine (which printed an excerpt in February) noted that this work was Swiftian in style, although by a lady. The Critical gave it a paragraph...

HM was much praised for this pamphlet as soon as her authorship was known. Porteus wrote to her as if to Mrs Chip, the author's wife, with the conceit that the pamphlet would make Chip...

The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift .JC 's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...

MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele .

This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...

Evelina was an instantaneous success. While FB 's identity was still unknown she repeatedly listened to praise of herself, uttered in ignorance that she had any concern in it. Samuel Johnson (like friends of Swift

MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .

MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...

MB 's campaign to raise subscribers for her Poems on Several Occasions was well under way: Swift wrote to her about its progress on 23 February 1731.

The title-page said 1686. The frontispiece is an engraving from one of AK 's two painted self-portraits. Jonathan Swift had a copy in his library. During the twenty-first century, copies of this handsome little book...

A second edition followed in November and further editions in 1731 (London), 1732 (Dublin ), and 1743-4. The work was first ascribed to ET by Curll in an advertisement at the end...