Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Osborne | Temple had a distinguished career as a politician, but is best known to literary history for his patronage of the young Jonathan Swift
. |
| 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 | 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 | 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. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
| 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... |
| 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 | Mary Delany | 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... |
| 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... |
| Health | Delarivier Manley | 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. Swift, Jonathan. Journal to Stella. Editor Williams, Sir Harold Herbert, Clarendon Press. 2: 474 |
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