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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 , 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, pp. 13-35. 15-16 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Jane Brereton | In March Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban had presented a literary defence of Jonathan Swift
(whose poems about women, Fidelia argued, were not misogynist but aimed at reforming individuals) and an elaborate joke about her secretly-cherished... |
| Textual Production | Frances Horovitz | Greg Gatanby
included FH
's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift |
| 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. 477n2 |
| Textual Production | Delarivier Manley | The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xvii Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii. xvii |
| Textual Production | Mary Davys | 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... |
| Textual Production | Medora Gordon Byron | 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 |
| Textual Production | Mary Barber | MB
composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift
, Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday. Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington. 71-2 |
| Textual Production | May Kendall | |
| 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, pp. 113-40. 133 |
| 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. |
Timeline
18 January 1609: John Healey's English version of the Latin...
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18 January 1609
John Healey
's English version of the Latin Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satiristJoseph Hall
was licensed by the Stationers' Company
as A Discovery of a New World.
May 1704: Swift anonymously published, together, his...
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May 1704
Swift
anonymously published, together, his first major works: A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books, written about eight years earlier.
30 April 1709: The ninth number of The Tatler carried Jonathan...
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30 April 1709
The ninth number of The Tatler carried Jonathan Swift
's A Description of the Morning: a mockpastoralpoem with prentice boys and maidservants for shepherds and shepherdesses.
2 May 1709: Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was...
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2 May 1709
Poetical Miscellanies. The Sixth Part was published, including Pope
's Pastorals and poems by Anne Finch
(which are placed between work by Pope and Swift
).
3 August 1710: The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and...
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3 August 1710
The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences was launched by Jonathan Swift
with the express intention of examining and correcting false statements from other periodicals; it ran until 1716
8 March 1711: Jonathan Swift's periodical The Examiner...
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8 March 1711
Jonathan Swift
's periodical The Examiner commented on the female habit of signalling party political allegiance by different styles of muffs or fans or beauty patches.
16 February 1712: People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic...
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16 February 1712
People in Dublin feared the outbreak of Catholic rebellion in the west of Ireland.
11 February 1722: Jonathan Swift wrote: It is a little hard,...
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11 February 1722
Jonathan Swift
wrote: It is a little hard, that not one gentleman's daughter in a thousand, should be brought to read, or understand her own natural tongue, or be judge of the easiest books that...
By May 1726: Jonathan Swift published his puzzling, ambivalent...
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By May 1726
Jonathan Swift
published his puzzling, ambivalent poetic account of his relationship with Esther Vanhomrigh
: Cadenus and Vanessa.
28 October 1726: Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation,...
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28 October 1726
Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation, as Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Swift
published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (better known as Gulliver's Travels).
22 November 1729: Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Modest...
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22 November 1729
Jonathan Swift
anonymously published A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
5 December 1734: A notorious poem by Swift, A Beautiful Young...
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5 December 1734
A notorious poem by Swift
, A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed, first reached print. In mock-pastoral mode, it describes a professional prostitute carefully disassembling the cosmetics and prostheses by which she makes...
1891: Margaret Louisa Woods published Esther Vanhomrigh,...
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1891
Margaret Louisa Woods
published Esther Vanhomrigh, a historicalromance centred on one of the women Swift
loved. She was an interesting subject: a poet and letter-writer herself, who pursued Swift to Ireland when he left...
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
Texts
Manley, Delarivier. A True Narrative of What Pass’d at the Examination of the Marquis de Guiscard. Editor Swift, Jonathan, John Morphew, 1711.
Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press, 1948.
Swift, Jonathan. Poems. Editor Williams, Harold, Clarendon, 1958.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington, 1734.
Swift, Jonathan, and Arthur Mainwaring. Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and The Medley. Editor Ellis, Frank H., Clarendon, 1985.
Swift, Jonathan. The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon, 1965.
Swift, Jonathan. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift. Editor Davis, Herbert, Blackwell, 1968.