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Esther Johnson
Standard Name: Johnson, Esther
Used Form: MD
Used Form: Stella
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Mary Davys | MD
dedicated this work to Swift's friend Esther Johnson
, or Stella, who later owned a copy. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xiv Real, Hermann J. “Stella’s Books”. Swift Studies, Vol. 11 , pp. 70-83. |
| Reception | Alice Meynell | AM
's diligent recuperation of women's literary history nonetheless marks her as a predecessor of some of Woolf's feminist concerns. They both wrote about some of the same women, including, for example, Jonathan Swift's Stella... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Jones | As a late Augustan, Jones is skilled in the styles of more than one distinguished male predecessor, and confidently invites comparison with them. Her most famous poem today is the first in the volume, An... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Lennox | William Tisdall
, maternal uncle of CL
, had sometimes enjoyed Swift
's confidence (if not much of his respect) and had once hoped to marry Esther Johnson
(Swift's Stella). Carlile, Susan. “Expanding the Feminine: Reconsidering Charlotte Lennox’s Age and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Life of Harriot Stuart</span>”;. Eighteenth-Century Novel, edited by Albert J. Rivero and George Justice, Vol. 4 , pp. 103-37. 110 Glendinning, Victoria. Jonathan Swift. Hutchinson. 66-7, 70 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sylvia Plath | At Cambridge she met Ted Hughes
, a British poet and fellow-student: his first passionate note to her is dated March 1956. In later letters he used an insistent baby-talk perhaps modelled on the Journal... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jonathan Swift | His first involvement, which began in 1695, was with Jane Waring
or Varina, who undoubtedly hoped to marry him. Esther Johnson
or Stella, whom he met as a child at Sir William Temple's... |
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