Jonathan Swift

Her topics here, all relevant to the escalating American demands for independence, are the declining economy, rising prices, and an oppressive burden of taxes. She was entering a debate previously carried on among such...

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...

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...

It was in four volumes, from the Minerva Press , with a quotation from Francis Bacon on the title-page, and further chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Swift , Prior , Thomson , Goldsmith , Edward Young

Her adult apprenticeship was less auspicious. Early in her marriage she antagonised her husband by outshining him when Swift set them to compete at translating odes by Horace . Shortly before her departure, alone, for...

The Modern Poet, published in MD 's Works, 1725, is a highly satirical poem in Swift 's scatological manner, which directs against a male satirical butt the familiar charges of being lewd and...

Greg Gatanby included FH 's poem Invocation in his Whales: A Celebration, 1983. This anthology comprises excerpts from literature, legends, myths, religions, and poetry from around the world. Among others included are Jonathan Swift

DM took over from Swift as editor (that is in practice as writer) of The Examiner (first series) with number 46.

MB composed On sending my Son, as a Present, to Dr. Swift , Dean of St. Patrick's on his birthday.

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 DMcook'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...