Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan

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Publishing Anne Killigrew
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...
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.
The work was first ascribed to ET by Curll in an advertisement at the end...
Publishing Fidelia
Two months after her first Gentleman's Magazine verse, Fidelia proposed a more unusual prize for the poety contest: not money at all, but the hand of Swift in marriage.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
4 (1734): 619
Reception Delarivier Manley
Today DM 's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her...
Reception Laetitia Pilkington
LP 's work was included in Poems by Eminent Ladies, 1755. But it was also traduced in catchpenny publications like The Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests; or, The Cabinet of Wit and Humour, 1759...
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.
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(though the passage on the dead wit and writer searching...
Reception Eliza Haywood
Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly...
Textual Features Constance Naden
The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or...
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
EH 's fictional Swift is widely unlike the original, especially in prose style.
Textual Features Mary Savage
It is a poem highly characteristic of her manner: a moral tale featuring a personified quality, humorous, ironic, and written in octosyllabic couplets reminiscent of Swift or Prior . Prudence and Oeconomy are the daughters...
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...
Textual Features Fidelia
She explains that having waited four months for Swift to answer her marriage proposal—still in love with him, having rejected other suitors for his sake, admiring his power of raillery, forgiving his harshness to women...
Textual Features Mary Savage
The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...
Textual Features Frances Burney
Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...
Textual Features Delarivier Manley
This book is often seen as a sequel, and it retails the same type of scandal as the New Atalantis, but without the supernatural mediating characters. It too purports to be translated: this time...

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