Jonathan Swift

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.

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...

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...

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, who nevertheless felt it incumbent...

Swift , who had been a good friend of MD 's husband, corresponded with her sporadically, but always sounded a little scathing about her. He visited her once at her Cambridge coffee-house.

MD dedicated this work to Swift's friend Esther Johnson , or Stella, who later owned a copy. As The Merry Wanderer it opens with a compliment to Ireland as the birthplace of Swift

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

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...

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.

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...

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

The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift .JC 's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...

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...

CC 's education took place at home. At about fourteen she was studying music, drawing, French, possibly German, Latin, Greek, history, geography, and mathematics. She became fluent in French and later took great pleasure in...

This poem was considered one of CC 's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford , and George Saintsbury noted its originality (though the passage on the dead wit and writer searching...