Jonathan Swift

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...

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...

Fidelia defends herself against the suspicion of being a male in disguise: I feign my name, but not my sex. She keeps up the fantasy of her love for Swift , assuring...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

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...

MB composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift , Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday.

MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora , launched a...

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...

Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.

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.

Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...

ES 's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift , and has something of an idiosyncratic biography...

LMWM 's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.

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...

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...