Jonathan Swift

The Debutante is set in an unnamed city on 1 May 1934. Its title character is an unnamed young woman who narrates in the first person and begins her narrative by announcing: When I was...

Her editor Elizabeth Mavor , however, prints a late poem (which MC herself called jingling doggerel), written for a family magazine produced by some young nephews and nieces, which is anything but sapless in...

MC shared her husband's network of high-level connections in circles of Jacobites and Jacobite sympathisers. She was a friend of the writers Pope , Prior , Swift , and Mary Barber , and of the...

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 .Prior

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

One reviewer noted ASB 's fascination with the symbolic world of the fairy tale, the dream and the artist's vision shape both the style and the content. In Crocodile Tears a woman walks away...

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

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...

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...

EB offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre (her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood (though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn , and Delarivier Manley , whom she calls the...

SB 's next novel, Tous les hommes sont mortels, 1946 (translated into English as All Men Are Mortal, 1954), features, like Woolf 's Orlando, a protagonist who is immortal, living on from...

Battier wrote most of this poem in stanzas composed of six iambic pentameters: an unusual metre for her, and one she does not stay in without lapses which may be intentional. Before the last passage...

In her first book of autobiography, HB always calls Evans the man. Naomi Royde-Smith thought him the most savage satirist since Swift . HB at once quarrelled with Leslie about him. The day after...

MB was arrested and taken into custody, on Matthew Pilkington 's information, in connection with publishing a seditious poem by Swift .

MB finally gained a secure income by a subscription edition of Swift 's Polite Conversation, whose manuscript he had given her for this end.