Jonathan Swift

Other relations included her maternal great-grandfather, Dr Thomas Kingsbury, who was President of the Royal College of Physicians and physician to Jonathan Swift. The gothic novelist Charles Robert Maturin, best known for Melmoth...

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...

Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire's Candide, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde's The Sphinx, and Twain's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...

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 .

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...

Swift, who had been a good friend of MD's husband, corresponded with her sporadically, but always sounded a little scathing about her. He visited her once at her Cambridge coffee-house.

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...

DM first met Jonathan Swift.

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...

In the category of Irish wits she included Jonathan Swift, Constantia Grierson and Laetitia Pilkington. Though Pilkington's closeness to Swift was an important point in her favour, MD was still demonstrating a certain...

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...

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...

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.

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...

DM (who had been seriously ill the previous year) had a sore leg and dropsy (i.e. water retention); Swift thought she cannot live long.