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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | In her first book of autobiography, HB
always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith
thought him the most savage satirist since Swift
. HB
at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after... |
Dedications | Mary Barber | Swift
dated his dedication of MB
's Poems, written on her behalf, to Lord Orrery
. Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington. iii-vii |
Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | MB
was a close friend of Constantia Grierson
. Her friendship with Jonathan Swift
endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington
did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband
when the couple fell out... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | To this year belongs one of her only two letters to Swift
that are known to survive, largely taken up with gossip about Lady Suffolk
's leaving her place at Court. Real, Hermann J. “’To the Dean’: A New Letter by Mary Barber”. Swift Studies, Vol. 19 , pp. 17-26. |
Textual Features | Mary Barber | Her poem to Lord Carteret concerns a work probably by Swift
. The publication addressed to Lady Carteret (actually consisting of one poem to her and one to her daughter) shows a strong sense of... |
Travel | Mary Barber | MB
arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift
to publish. McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 32 , pp. 101-24. 119 |
Other Life Event | Mary Barber | MB
was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington
's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift
. McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 32 , pp. 101-24. 119 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Barber | MB
finally gained a secure income by a subscription edition of Swift
's Polite Conversation, whose manuscript he had given her for this end. Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Swift: the Man, his Works, and the Age. Harvard University Press. 3: 836 |
Textual Production | Mary Barber | MB
composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift
, Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday. Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington. 71-2 |
Publishing | Mary Barber | 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. Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol. xviii , pp. 155-74. 170 |
Textual Production | Mary Barber | Somebody signing Swift
's name, possibly MB
herself, addressed to Queen Caroline
a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage. The name of Matthew Pilkington
, though not yet put forward, seems a natural... |
Literary responses | Mary Astell | MA
was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift
or Steele
. Steele, Sir Richard, and Donald F. Bond, editors. The Tatler. Vol. 3 vols., Clarendon Press. 1:238-41 Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press. 228-9 |
Textual Features | Mary Astell | These poems succeed in making the Christian life of resignation and unselfishness into a series of heroic trials and combats. MA
has the makings of a fine poet in the grand style; she evidently learned... |
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