Jonathan Swift

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Standard Name: Swift, Jonathan
Painting of an older Jonathan Swift, who is posed sitting in a high-backed chair.
Painting of Jonathan Swift from the chest up, with his face largely positioned in the center of the portrait

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Latter
Reviewers in general were impressed. The Gentleman's Magazine (which printed an excerpt in February) noted that this work was Swiftian in style, although by a lady.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
34 (1764): 91
The Critical gave it a paragraph...
Literary responses Hannah More
HM was much praised for this pamphlet as soon as her authorship was known. Porteus wrote to her as if to Mrs Chip, the author's wife, with the conceit that the pamphlet would make Chip...
Literary responses Jane Collier
The Monthly Review was moderately laudatory about the Art of Tormenting; it picked up on the relationship to Swift .
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
8 (1753): 274
JC 's commonplace-book commented wryly on a man who declared that...
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, 1987.
1:238-41
Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
228-9
Literary responses Frances Burney
Evelina was an instantaneous success. While FB 's identity was still unknown she repeatedly listened to praise of herself, uttered in ignorance that she had any concern in it. Samuel Johnson (like friends of Swift
Literary responses Edith Sitwell
This book made Yeats liken ES to Swift for her passion ennobled by intensity, by endurance, by wisdom.
qtd. in
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson, 1965.
106
Her Times obituary called these poems Sitwell's The Waste Land, suggesting that despite her still...
Literary responses Sarah Fielding
The book's admirers included (perhaps embarrassingly) the courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips , who praised it in her Memoirs.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
72
Jane Collier in her commonplace-book not only noted that Mrs Teachum has the Swift ian...
Literary responses Anne Finch
Richard Steele in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992.
93
Around this same time, Swift wrote a poem celebrating AF for winning poetic fame in the...
Literary responses Evelyn Sharp
Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
122, 126
Literary responses Mary Caesar
She was just as insecure about her style and presentation in letters as in her journal, and elicited reassuring praise from Pope , Prior, Swift , Lord Orrery , and Lord Lansdowne .
Rumbold, Valerie. “The Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar”. Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740, edited by Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, Batsford, 1992, pp. 178-98.
181-2
Prior
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
, 1979, pp. 101-24.
119
Author summary Molly Keane
MK had two distinct phases in her writing career. Between 1926 and 1961 she wrote, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell, eleven novels and four plays. After almost twenty years of silence, she published...
Publishing Anne Killigrew
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...
Publishing Mary Robinson
The Morning Post published MR 's London's Summer Morning, a word-painting of city life in the tradition of Swift 's Description poems.
Curran, Stuart. “Mary Robinson and the New Lyric”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
9
, No. 1, 2002, pp. 9-22.
14-15
Publishing Fidelia
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
4 (1734): 619

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