Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan

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Literary responses Mary Astell
MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele .
Steele, Sir Richard, and Donald F. Bond, editors. The Tatler. Vol. 3 vols., Clarendon Press.
1:238-41
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press.
228-9
Textual Features Mary Astell
These poems succeed in making the Christian life of resignation and unselfishness into a series of heroic trials and combats. MA has the makings of a fine poet in the grand style; she evidently learned...
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.
3: 836
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
Publishing Mary Barber
MB 's campaign to raise subscribers for her Poems on Several Occasions was well under way: Swift wrote to her about its progress on 23 February 1731.
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, pp. 155-74.
170
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...
Dedications Mary Barber
Swift dated his dedication of MB 's Poems, written on her behalf, to Lord Orrery .
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington.
iii-vii
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 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.
Textual Features Mary Barber
Her poem to Lord Carteret concerns a work probably by Swift . The publication addressed to Lady Carteret (actually consisting of one poem to her and one to her daughter) shows a strong sense of...
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
Other Life Event Mary Barber
MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
32
, pp. 101-24.
119
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Henrietta Battier
Battier wrote most of this poem in stanzas composed of six iambic pentameters: an unusual metre for her, and one she does not stay in without lapses which may be intentional. Before the last passage...
Intertextuality and Influence Simone de Beauvoir
SB 's next novel, Tous les hommes sont mortels, 1946 (translated into English as All Men Are Mortal, 1954), features, like Woolf 's Orlando, a protagonist who is immortal, living on from...

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.