Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
. Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 58 Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press. |
| Education | Dorothy Wellesley | She also furthered her own education by early-morning visits to the library, sometimes permitted though sometimes stopped, during which she read everything I could lay hands on, including Tennyson
, Matthew Arnold
, Swift
's... |
| Education | Alice Walker | On her own the child AW
was always reading. At eight she identified in someone else's house a photograph of Booker T. Washington
—and asked, Why don't you give it to me, please? White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 31 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers... |
| Education | Linda Villari | During the time she spent at her great-aunt's house in Croydon, LV
's novel suggests she was taught at home by a family governess, a close friend of her mother, identified there as Miss... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Thomas | A second edition followed in November and further editions in 1731 (London), 1732 (Dublin ), and 1743-4. Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press. |
| Leisure and Society | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She did not forget her literary plans and ambitions. She had already, in her teens, subscribed to the new and influential magazine Anthologia Hibernica. Now, helping to clear out a house in Dublin which... |
| Textual Features | Robert Southey | Against the trend of the times, RS
aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste... |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift
, and has something of an idiosyncratic biography... |
| Literary responses | Edith Sitwell | |
| Textual Features | Catherine Sinclair | She had rich material to draw from because her father, John Sinclair (1754-1835), was an unusually accomplished man who was very active in public life. Most notably, he conceived and undertook the publication of The... |
| Travel | Frances Sheridan | They also loved to spend time at the estate of Quilca in Co. Cavan, a family property immortalised in poems by Jonathan Swift
, who had stayed there a generation previously with FS
's father-in-law. Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35. 15-16 |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry Nevinson
, however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift
's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler
's Erewhon. Harold Laski
, too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 122, 126 |
Timeline
18 January 1609: John Healey's English version of the Latin...
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18 January 1609
John Healey
's English version of the Latin Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satiristJoseph Hall
was licensed by the Stationers' Company
as A Discovery of a New World.
May 1704: Swift anonymously published, together, his...
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May 1704
Swift
anonymously published, together, his first major works: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, written about eight years earlier.
30 April 1709: The ninth number of The Tatler carried Jonathan...
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30 April 1709
The ninth number of The Tatler carried Jonathan Swift
's A Description of the Morning: a mockpastoralpoem with prentice boys and maidservants for shepherds and shepherdesses.
2 May 1709: Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was...
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2 May 1709
Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was published, including Pope
's Pastorals and poems by Anne Finch
(which are placed between work by Pope and Swift
).
3 August 1710: The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and...
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3 August 1710
The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences was launched by Jonathan Swift
with the express intention of examining and correcting false statements from other periodicals; it ran until 1716
8 March 1711: Jonathan Swift's periodical The Examiner...
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8 March 1711
Jonathan Swift
's periodical The Examiner commented on the female habit of signalling party political allegiance by different styles of muffs or fans or beauty patches.
16 February 1712: People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic...
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16 February 1712
People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic rebellion in the west of Ireland.
11 February 1722: Jonathan Swift wrote: It is a little hard,...
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11 February 1722
Jonathan Swift
wrote: It is a little hard, that not one gentleman's daughter in a thousand, should be brought to read, or understand her own natural tongue, or be judge of the easiest books that...
By May 1726: Jonathan Swift published his puzzling, ambivalent...
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By May 1726
Jonathan Swift
published his puzzling, ambivalent poetic account of his relationship with Esther Vanhomrigh
: Cadenus and Vanessa.
28 October 1726: Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation,...
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28 October 1726
Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation, as Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Swift
published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (better known as Gulliver's Travels).
22 November 1729: Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Modest...
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22 November 1729
Jonathan Swift
anonymously published A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
5 December 1734: A notorious poem by Swift, A Beautiful Young...
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5 December 1734
A notorious poem by Swift
, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, first reached print. In mock-pastoral mode, it describes a professional prostitute carefully disassembling the cosmetics and prostheses by which she makes...
1891: Margaret Louisa Woods published Esther Vanhomrigh,...
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1891
Margaret Louisa Woods
published Esther Vanhomrigh, a historicalromance centred on one of the women Swift
loved. She was an interesting subject: a poet and letter-writer herself, who pursued Swift to Ireland when he left...
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Manley, Delarivier. A True Narrative of What Pass’d at the Examination of the Marquis de Guiscard. Editor Swift, Jonathan, John Morphew, 1711.
Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press, 1948.
Swift, Jonathan. Poems. Editor Williams, Harold, Clarendon, 1958.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
Swift, Jonathan, and Arthur Mainwaring. Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and The Medley. Editor Ellis, Frank H., Clarendon, 1985.
Swift, Jonathan. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon, 1965.
Swift, Jonathan. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift. Editor Davis, Herbert, Blackwell, 1968.