William Tisdall
, maternal uncle of CL
, had sometimes enjoyed Swift
's confidence (if not much of his respect) and had once hoped to marry Esther Johnson
(Swift's Stella).
Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life of Harriot Stuart</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol.
4
, pp. 103-37.
110
Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson.
66-7, 70
It is...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Richardson
Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire
's Candide, Swift
's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde
's The Sphinx, and Twain
's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Other relations included her maternal great-grandfather, Dr Thomas Kingsbury, who was President of the Royal College of Physicians
and physician to Jonathan Swift
. The gothic novelist Charles Robert Maturin
, best known for Melmoth...
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...
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
He visited her once at her Cambridge coffee-house.
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
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Osborne
DO
's sister-in-law Martha, Lady Giffard
, a historical writer and an early widow, lived permanently with the family. Sir William Temple employed the young Jonathan Swift
from 1689. DO
was a friend and correspondent...
Friends, Associates
Mary Caesar
MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the...
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...
Friends, Associates
Laetitia Pilkington
LP
's friendship with Constantia Grierson
had begun before her marriage. Both she and her husband were friends and protegées of Swift
, and she met and entertained the future Mary Delany
on the latter's...
Friends, Associates
Constantia Grierson
CG
was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift
has been an element in preserving some memory...
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.
Friends, Associates
Alexander Pope
During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.