Jonathan Swift

Any relation to Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub is indirect and inexplicit. The tub in this case is the working tool of Jeannette, stocking-mender, launderer, and cousin of du Barry (who herself...

Begun in order to help the work of a female student, this work reiterates more strongly EE's plea for opening the arena of scholarship to women. For examples of poetic practice she turns to...

The title-page of volume one of Graham Hamilton quotes Burns; the second quotes Swift denouncing scandal. Though quieter, this novel again displays splendid satirical energy. It contains only one lyric (written by Nathan for...

Elstob probably succeeded in modifying Swift's views: he later adopted some of hers. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this publication.

In print ER's play was accompanied by a preface written in the voice of a young-Turk satirist. It is a piece that could hardly have appeared at this date under a woman's name, and...

Grierson wrote this for print, to celebrate her friendship with Barber, and to predict the latter's success. The version printed in the volume shows very careful revision since Grierson's draft copy, with a new, dignified...

These are serious poems which engage unblinkingly with the perplexities of the human condition. The intricate, highly visual title-poem juxtaposes two views of human lives: one of people as distant and tiny, one as close...

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...

Her own title makes her own poem an answer to one of Swift's most notorious productions. In a brilliant pastiche of his own stylistic habits and his scatological gusto, Montagu represents him as an...

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...

Fidelia's response is flippant, racy, and Swift ian in style. Her first joke is to adopt a professional or hard-headed tone, entirely at odds with the invitation to write solemn devotional verse. She complains that...

In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence,

One reviewer noted ASB's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

MD dedicated this work to Swift's friend Esther Johnson, or Stella, who later owned a copy. As The Merry Wanderer it opens with a compliment to Ireland as the birthplace of Swift

MD makes skilful use of letters to project character, political issues, and gender interaction. Her use of significant dates (All Saints' Day, November the fifth) links her with the prophetic tradition of Lady Eleanor Douglas