Jonathan Swift

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...

She explains that having waited four months for Swift to answer her marriage proposal—still in love with him, having rejected other suitors for his sake, admiring his power of raillery, forgiving his harshness to women...

The opening poem, Nothing New, situates the anxieties of authors in regard to critics in the tradition of anxieties of lovers: both are right to be anxious. The contents include an English translation of...

Along with the sentimental and misunderstanding-prone lovers and the ridiculous esprit circle (which might so easily be taken to represent the Bluestockings), The Witlings features a women's working environment: a milliner's shop where seamstresses make...

This book is often seen as a sequel, and it retails the same type of scandal as the New Atalantis, but without the supernatural mediating characters. It too purports to be translated: this time...

Fidelia defends herself against the suspicion of being a male in disguise: I feign my name, but not my sex. She keeps up the fantasy of her love for Swift , assuring...

Today DM 's stock is high, but she is less studied than many of her contemporaries. Her choice of genres and her close involvement with the political and other affairs of her time make her...

LP 's work was included in Poems by Eminent Ladies, 1755. But it was also traduced in catchpenny publications like The Celebrated Mrs. Pilkington's Jests; or, The Cabinet of Wit and Humour, 1759...

This poem was considered one of CC 's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford , and George Saintsbury noted its originality (though the passage on the dead wit and writer searching...

Love in Excess, with its arguably six editions by 1725, has repeatedly been likened to Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe and Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels as bestselling English fictions before Pamela. It has never shared their status, partly...

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.

The title-page said 1686. The frontispiece is an engraving from one of AK 's two painted self-portraits. Jonathan Swift had a copy in his library. During the twenty-first century, copies of this handsome little book...

A second edition followed in November and further editions in 1731 (London), 1732 (Dublin ), and 1743-4. The work was first ascribed to ET by Curll in an advertisement at the end...

Two months after her first Gentleman's Magazine verse, Fidelia proposed a more unusual prize for the poety contest: not money at all, but the hand of Swift in marriage.

Fidelia reappeared in the Gentleman's Magazine with To a young Gentleman who had a fine Genius for Poetry, but who upon reading Mr Pope 's and Dr Swift 's Works, declined writing.