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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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, 1962–2025, 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...
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 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
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...

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