Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Caesar | MC
shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites
and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope
, Prior
, Swift
, and Mary Barber
, and of the... |
| Friends, Associates | Laetitia Pilkington | LP
's friendship with Constantia Grierson
had begun before her marriage. Both she and her husband were friends and protegées of Swift
, and she met and entertained the future Mary Delany
on the latter's... |
| Friends, Associates | Constantia Grierson | CG
was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber
and Laetitia Pilkington
. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift
has been an element in preserving some memory... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | MB
was a close friend of Constantia Grierson
. Her friendship with Jonathan Swift
endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington
did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband
when the couple fell out... |
| Friends, Associates | Alexander Pope | During these few months Pope
, Swift
, Gay
, and others met regularly as a brilliant, informal, all-male club in London for fun, jokes, and literary projects; they called themselves the Scriblerus Club. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Barber | To this year belongs one of her only two letters to Swift
that are known to survive, largely taken up with gossip about Lady Suffolk
's leaving her place at Court. Real, Hermann J. “’To the Dean’: A New Letter by Mary Barber”. Swift Studies, Vol. 19 , pp. 17-26. |
| Friends, Associates | Delarivier Manley | DM
first met Jonathan Swift
. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 1: 154 and n1 |
| Friends, Associates | William Congreve | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Davys | Swift
, who had been a good friend of MD
's husband, corresponded with her sporadically, but always sounded a little scathing about her. 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. xii 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. xliiin20 |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Martha, Lady Giffard
, a historical writer and an early widow, lived permanently with the family. Sir William Temple employed the young Jonathan Swift
from 1689. DO
was a friend and correspondent... |
| 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 | Elizabeth Griffith | Her father, Thomas Griffith
, was an actor, and manager of Smock Alley Theatre
(the Theatre Royal) in Dublin. He became Master of the Revels in Ireland in 1729 and opened a new Dublin theatre... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Cassandra, Lady Hawke | The future CLH
's father, Sir Edward Turner
, had the distinction of being called by Swiftfriend of Apollo and the Muses. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | In her first book of autobiography, HB
always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith
thought him the most savage satirist since Swift
. HB
at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after... |
| 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 |
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