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
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM 's lampoon on Swift appeared as an anonymous folio, The Dean's Provocation for Writing the Lady's Dressing-Room. A Poem.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
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...
Textual Production Alison Fell
AF 's novel The Mistress of Lilliput; or, The Pursuit is both a kind of prequel and sequel to Swift 's Gulliver's Travels.
“Alison Fell”. Fantastic Fiction.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production James Tiptree Jr.
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...
Textual Production Jane Brereton
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...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
There was printed Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, Written by Captain Gulliver;
Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press, 1915.
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this was probably not by EH —but Pope (its target) thought it was.
Guerinot, Joseph Vincent. Pamphlet Attacks on Alexander Pope 1711-1744, A Descriptive Bibliography. Methuen, 1969.
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Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books, 1998.
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As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES 's I Live under a Black Sun appeared: generally called a novel, it relates a modern version of some events in the life of Jonathan Swift , and has something of an idiosyncratic biography...
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
This year EH published four new works or instalments of works.
Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction and Chronology of Events in Eliza Haywood’s Life”. The Injur’d Husband, or, The Mistaken Resentment; and, Lasselia, or, The Self-Abandon’d, edited by Jerry C. Beasley, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlii.
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Besides these, Some Memoirs of the Amours and Intrigues of a Certain Irish Dean . . . not many Hundred Years since...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Priscilla Wakefield
Despite the title, the travel in this sequel or companion to The Juvenile Travellers confines itself to the British Isles, where one of the most pressing topics of local interest is association with writers...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Judith Sargent Murray
She backs this pleasure in modernity with a remarkable grasp of former female history and of the women's literary tradition in English and its contexts. She mentions the Greek foremother Sappho , the patriotic heroism...
Travel Frances Sheridan
They also loved to spend time at the estate of Quilca in Co. Cavan, a family property immortalised in poems by Jonathan Swift , who had stayed there a generation previously with FS 's father-in-law.
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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Travel Mary Barber
MB arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift to publish.
McLaverty, James. “Lawton Gilliver: Pope’s Bookseller”. Studies in Bibliography, Vol.
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, 1979, pp. 101-24.
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Wealth and Poverty Mary Barber
MB finally gained a secure income by a subscription edition of Swift 's Polite Conversation, whose manuscript he had given her for this end.
Ehrenpreis, Irvin. Swift: the Man, his Works, and the Age. Harvard University Press, 1962–1983, 3 vols.
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