Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan
Painting of an older Jonathan Swift, who is posed sitting in a high-backed chair.
Painting of Jonathan Swift from the chest up, with his face largely positioned in the center of the portrait

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
DM took over from Swift as editor (that is in practice as writer) of The Examiner (first series) with number 46.
Swift, Jonathan, and Arthur Mainwaring. Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and The Medley. Editor Ellis, Frank H., Clarendon, 1985.
477n2
Textual Production Mary Barber
Somebody signing Swift 's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.
The name of Matthew Pilkington , though not yet put forward, seems a natural...
Textual Production Mary Delany
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,
Thaddeus, Janice. “Mary Delany, Model to the Age”. History, Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature, edited by Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia Press, 1994, pp. 113-40.
133
who nevertheless felt it incumbent...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xvii
was de Guiscard 's trial for attempted murder of the Prime Minister, Robert Harley . Swift wrote the first page and DMcook'd it into
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
xvii
completion.
Textual Production Lucie Duff Gordon
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Lucie Duff Gordon
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...
Textual Production May Kendall
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...
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM 's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
273-6
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Priscilla Wakefield
Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers...
Travel Mary Barber
MB arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift to publish.
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
32
, 1979, pp. 101-24.
119
Travel Frances Sheridan
They also loved to spend time at the estate of Quilca in Co. Cavan, a family property immortalised in poems by Jonathan Swift , who had stayed there a generation previously with FS 's father-in-law.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
15-16
Wealth and Poverty Mary Barber
MB finally gained a secure income by a subscription edition of Swift 's Polite Conversation, whose manuscript he had given her for this end.
Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Swift: the Man, his Works, and the Age. Harvard University Press, 1962–1983, 3 vols.
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