Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan

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Textual Features Violet Fane
The unnamed male narrator describes himself as a foreigner, but has lived in London long enough to be mistaken for an Englishman.
Fane, Violet. The Edwin and Angelina Papers. World Office.
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In the end he reveals himself to be an inhabitant of Japan...
Textual Features Isabella Lickbarrow
Her first poem, an Introductory Address to the Muse, uses the language of love and courtship: In secret shades alone I woo'd thee then / By stealth, nor to the world durst tell my love...
Textual Features Maria Riddell
MR 's own twenty poems include prefatory verses as editor, written for the occasion. She prints work by the late Henrietta O'Neill (the well-known Ode to the Poppy), Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (St...
Textual Features Catharine Macaulay
Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women’s Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
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She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...
Textual Features Elizabeth Boyd
EB offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre (her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood (though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn , and Delarivier Manley , whom she calls the...
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...
Textual Features Fidelia
Fidelia defends herself against the suspicion of being a male in disguise: I feign my name, but not my sex.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 256
She keeps up the fantasy of her love for Swift , assuring...
Textual Features Dorothy Osborne
She trod a fine line as to the expression of her own feelings, for if the courtship should not end in marriage, she would have compromised her reputation. She converts this restriction into a rhetorical...

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