Mrs Sican

Swift helped and befriended a number of women writers. He was a patron of Mary Barber, Constantia Grierson, an unidentified Mrs Sican, Mary Davys, and Laetitia Pilkington, a colleague of...

CG was a friend from their adolescence of the young women who became the poets Mary Barber and Laetitia Pilkington. Their shared friendship with Jonathan Swift has been an element in preserving some memory...