Jonathan Swift

The Elixir of Life opens with the waking vision of a man and woman in their summer prime, he looking like Apollo, she looking like an angel with just a touch of the siren or...

EH's fictional Swift is widely unlike the original, especially in prose style.

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...

A few of MD's letters had already reached print: those to Swift in 1766 and those to Frances Hamilton in 1820. Lady Llanover was an extremely meticulous editor, who nevertheless felt it incumbent...

The occasion for this six-penny pamphlet was de Guiscard's trial for attempted murder of the Prime Minister, Robert Harley. Swift wrote the first page and DM cook'd it into completion.

Somebody signing Swift's name, possibly MB herself, addressed to Queen Caroline a letter fulsomely praising Barber's writings and requesting patronage.

LDG made a foray into fiction with her translation of Léon de Wailly's Stella and Vanessa, a French novel based on Jonathan Swift's life.

LDG was not mistaken in her conviction that the novel, which features the singular and unexplained relations of Swift with the two distinguished and charming women whom it was his lot and his pleasure to...

MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora, launched a...

LMWM's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.

She remained attentive to the patterns of violence against women, particularly sexual crimes and domestic violence. Lydia Becker did not like to ask her to write gratis for the Women's Suffrage Journal, but seems...

AF's novel The Mistress of Lilliput; or, The Pursuit is both a kind of prequel and sequel to Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Raccoona's final story, Morality Meat (published in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, edited by Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu, 1985), imagines a horrific world in which abortion is outlawed and...

In March Fidelia to Sylvanus Urban had presented a literary defence of Jonathan Swift (whose poems about women, Fidelia argued, were not misogynist but aimed at reforming individuals) and an elaborate joke about her secretly-cherished...

The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion. As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...