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Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
was not mistaken in her conviction that the novel, which features the singular and unexplained relations of Swift
with the two distinguished and charming women whom it was his lot and his pleasure to... |
Textual Production | Lucie Duff Gordon | LDG
made a foray into fiction with her translation of Léon de Wailly
's Stella
and Vanessa, a French novel based on Jonathan Swift
's life. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Delany | In the category of Irish wits she included Jonathan Swift
, Constantia Grierson
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Though Pilkington's closeness to Swift
was an important point in her favour, MD
was still demonstrating a certain... |
Textual Production | Mary Delany | A few of MD
's letters had already reached print: those to Swift
in 1766 and those to Frances Hamilton in 1820. Lady Llanover
was an extremely meticulous editor, Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, pp. 113-40. 133 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Davys | Swift
, who had been a good friend of MD
's husband, corresponded with her sporadically, but always sounded a little scathing about her. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xii Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xliiin20 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
dedicated this work to Swift's friend Esther Johnson
, or Stella, who later owned a copy. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Real, Hermann J. “Stella’s Books”. Swift Studies, Vol. 11 , pp. 70-83. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Davys | MD
makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas |
Textual Production | Mary Davys | The Modern Poet, published in MD
's Works, 1725, is a highly satirical poem in Swift
's scatological manner, which directs against a male satirical butt the familiar charges of being lewd and... |
Education | William Congreve | WC
attended Trinity College
, Dublin, where he was a fellow-student of Swift
. Back in England he became a law student at the Middle Temple
, but soon drifted away from the law towards a literary life. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | William Congreve | As a young man Congreve formed a friendship with the older and distinguished Dryden
. He later belonged to the Whig Kit-Cat Club
, and counted most of its members among his friends, while remaining... |
Textual Features | Jane Collier | The Art of Tormenting is often referred to as a novel, but its genre is really that of the spoof instruction manual: the genre of Pope
's The Art of Sinking in Poetry and Swift |
Literary responses | Jane Collier | The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift
. Griffiths, Ralph, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 8 (1753): 274 |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | She remained attentive to the patterns of violence against women, particularly sexual crimes and domestic violence. Lydia Becker
did not like to ask her to write gratis for the Women's Suffrage Journal, but seems... |
Education | Caroline Clive | CC
's education took place at home. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Reception | Caroline Clive | This poem was considered one of CC
's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford
, and George Saintsbury
noted its originality Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press. 123 |
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