Jonathan Swift

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 arrived in London from Dublin on a money-making venture: she had poems by Swift to publish.

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.

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

MB 's campaign to raise subscribers for her Poems on Several Occasions was well under way: Swift wrote to her about its progress on 23 February 1731.

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

Swift dated his dedication of MB 's Poems, written on her behalf, to Lord Orrery .

MB was a close friend of Constantia Grierson . Her friendship with Jonathan Swift endured many vicissitudes; that with Laetitia Pilkington did not survive her apparently siding with Pilkington's husband when the couple fell out...

To this year belongs one of her only two letters to Swift that are known to survive, largely taken up with gossip about Lady Suffolk 's leaving her place at Court.

Her poem to Lord Carteret concerns a work probably by Swift . The publication addressed to Lady Carteret (actually consisting of one poem to her and one to her daughter) shows a strong sense of...

MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele .

These poems succeed in making the Christian life of resignation and unselfishness into a series of heroic trials and combats. MA has the makings of a fine poet in the grand style; she evidently learned...