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

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
These pamphlets printed in October were praised by Swift . Apparently, though, they gave rise to the attack on a Club of She-Romps in The Spectator for 8 November 1711.
qtd. in
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
280
These notional women are...
Literary responses Jeanette Winterson
This novel received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2026, Numerous volumes.
58
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press, 1996.
Reviewers in Cosmopolitan, the London Review of Books, The Times, the Financial Times...
Literary responses Delarivier Manley
Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...
Literary responses Marghanita Laski
US reviews were good. C. J. Rolo in the Atlantic Monthly called the book a scorching indictment of a hierarchical society, predicting that the blandly devastating satire will especially regale those well versed in the...
Literary responses Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
According to a delighted Hervey, Pope was infuriated. Swift thought the Verses were badly written. Montagu's granddaughter Lady Louisa Stuart thought that for high-born writers to jeer at Pope's family was shameful. On the whole...
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...
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 Elizabeth Thomas
A second edition followed in November and further editions in 1731 (London), 1732 (Dublin ), and 1743-4.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
The work was first ascribed to ET by Curll in an advertisement at the end...
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
Publishing Fidelia
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.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
5 (1735): 494

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