Which woman's first name was invented by the author Jonathan Swift?
"name became more and more popular and was the 7th most popular name for girls in the 1990s. In the following years its popularity dropped and the name is ranked in 42nd place for the decade 2000–2009. Vanessa (name) Vanessa is a feminine given name, especially popular in the United States, Germany and Brazil. It was invented by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708 and whom he tutored. The name was created by taking ""Van"" from Vanhomrigh's last name and adding ""Essa"", a pet form of Esther. In 1726 the name Vanessa"
"her first name. With this poem, Swift created the popular woman's name ""Vanessa"". Cadenus and Vanessa Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1712 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: ""Cadenus"" is an anagram of the Latin ""decanus"", meaning ‘dean’: Swift was dean of St Patrick's, and known as Dean Swift in the manner of the time. The neologism is ""Vanessa"", in secret reference to Esther Vanhomrigh. The name starts"
"Jonathan Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom he created the name ""Vanessa"", ended in a violent quarrel about another woman whom he had loved for many years, Esther Johnson ""(Stella)""; Swift may secretly have married Stella in 1716. The quarrel arose when Vanessa asked Swift not to see Stella again, and he refused. Vanessa, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis and died a few months later, revoked the will she had made in Swift's favour and made a new will, dividing her estate between Marshall and George Berkeley, later to be celebrated as a philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, and"
"Europe and the British Isles at the time of the Reformation prior to which the occurrence of Biblical names – unless borne by saints – was unusual. The modified form Hester has seemingly co-existed with the original Esther throughout the name's usage in the English-speaking world, where despite a theoretic slight pronunciative difference Esther and Hester were long largely – perhaps totally – interchangeable, with it being routine for a woman cited as Esther in one document to be elsewhere documented as Hester. One specific example of this is Esther Johnson, the ""Stella"" of Jonathan Swift, whose baptismal record identifies"
"Esther Vanhomrigh Esther Vanhomrigh (known by the pseudonym Vanessa; c. 1688 – 2 June 1723), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published after her death. Her fictional name ""Vanessa"" was created by Swift by taking ""Van"" from her surname, Vanhomrigh, and adding ""Esse"", the pet form of her first name, Esther. She was fictionalized as ""Vanessa"" in Swift's poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). In the poem, he wrote: Vanessa’s bower is the riverside venue near Celbridge Abbey where they are said to have spent time together."
"her as Hester but who always signed herself Esther. Similarly Swift wrote letters to his ""Vanessa"": Esther Vanhomrigh, in which Swift sometimes wrote her first name in the respective address as Esther and sometimes as Hester. The commonality usage of Esther and Hester had essentially been phased out by 1900 with Esther retaining a high usage profile especially in North America whereas the usage of Hester has shown a progressive decline. The 9 September 1893 birth of Esther Cleveland, daughter of US president Grover Cleveland, was heavily publicized as the first birth of a presidential child in the White House"
"intensity as those Swift had with Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh. Anne Long became a well-known figure in London society, possibly as early as 1703. She became a toast of the Kit-Cat Club, and Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton had her name engraved on the club's drinking glasses: Her closest associate was the niece of Sir Isaac Newton, Catherine Barton (d. 1739), rumoured to be the mistress of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, and later wife of politician John Conduitt. Long first met Swift in 1707 at the London home of the Vanhomrighs, whom she described in her"
"with her, since they feared to receive a bad reputation sympathizing with Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née"
"Deborah Swift Deborah Swift (born 1955), who has also written as Davina Blake, is an English writer of historical fiction, based in north west Lancashire. Her first published novel was ""The Lady's Slipper"" (2010, Macmillan, ), which alludes to the lady's slipper orchid found in the Silverdale area near her home. Levens Hall features as one of the locations of the book, which is set in 1660 and involves the persecution of local Quakers. ""The Gilded Lily"" (2012, Pan, ) follows some of the same characters but moves the location to London and considers aspects of beauty and cosmetics. ""A"
"Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (née Darby; 27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English actress, poet, dramatist, novelist, and celebrity figure. During her lifetime she was known as ""the English Sappho"". She earned her nickname ""Perdita"" for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"") in 1779. She was the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales. Robinson was born in Bristol, England to Nicholas Darby, a naval captain, and his wife Hester (née Vanacott) who had married at Donyatt, Somerset, in 1749, and was baptised 'Polle(y)' (""Spelt"
"Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her mother, Julia Prinsep Jackson, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three children from her first marriage; her father, Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters, had one previous daughter; their marriage produced another four children, including the modernist"
"Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for works such as ""A Tale of a Tub"" (1704), ""An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity"" (1712), ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726), and ""A Modest Proposal"" (1729). He is regarded by the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as"
"exists (the famous Millais portrait is a work of artistic imagination). Swift later served as her tutor. After her mother died in 1714, Esther followed Swift to Ireland, and returned to Celbridge Abbey, but she was desperately miserable there. Their relationship was fraught. It was broken up after 17 years by Swift's relationship with another woman, Esther Johnson, whom he called ""Stella"", in 1723. Swift had known Stella since about 1690, when she was a little girl in the household of his employer Sir William Temple; their relationship was intense and it is possible that they had secretly married in"
"insight into Jonathan Swift, in particular, who is revealed as a reverse hypocrite, always pretending to gruffness but actually quite pious and tender hearted. Personal, physical, and conversational details also emerge about Colley Cibber, Samuel Richardson, Charles Churchill, John Ligonier, Edmund Curll, and the young William Blackstone. Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen; ""c."" 1709 – 29 July 1750) was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet. Her ""Memoirs"" are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others. Laetitia was born of two distinguished families. Her father was a physician and"
"helping their fellow Connecticuters settle there instead. When Swift set up residence near Ganargua Creek in 1790 (after buying out Jenkins), the area was named ""Swift's Landing"". It later was named ""Tolland"" before being renamed ""Palmyra"" at the first town meeting in 1796. Swift had married Rhoda Sawyer on March 6, 1784; her brother was the one who proposed the name ""Palmyra"" in 1796. After Rhoda's death, Swift later married Hepsibah Treat Davidson. He had four children by his first wife and three more by his second. Swift re-entered military service when the War of 1812 broke out, as a"
"Awards, announced on 25 September 2015, Swift was nominated for the Reader’s Choice Award with David Attenborough, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Michael Palin. Joy Swift Joy Angela Swift MBE (born 2 October 1956) is a businesswoman, writer and events organiser from Liverpool, who is best known as the inventor of the murder mystery weekend. Swift was born in Blundellsands, Liverpool, to Norman and Thelma (née Lake), Swift is the youngest of three children. Her father Norman was the fourth generation to run the family owned timber merchants business. Swift went to college to study graphic design but she left to"
"Joy Swift Joy Angela Swift MBE (born 2 October 1956) is a businesswoman, writer and events organiser from Liverpool, who is best known as the inventor of the murder mystery weekend. Swift was born in Blundellsands, Liverpool, to Norman and Thelma (née Lake), Swift is the youngest of three children. Her father Norman was the fourth generation to run the family owned timber merchants business. Swift went to college to study graphic design but she left to take up full-time employment at the Liverpool Echo. Swift left three years later to join a small chain of hotels. In 1981, she"
"Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier – or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in ""A Modest Proposal"", has led to such satire being subsequently termed ""Swiftian"". Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (1640–1667) and his wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick) of Frisby on the Wreake. His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire, but he accompanied his brothers to Ireland to seek their fortunes in law after"
"lock of hair, assumed to be Esther Johnson's, was found in his desk, wrapped in a paper bearing the words, ""Only a woman's hair"". Death became a frequent feature of Swift's life from this point. In 1731 he wrote ""Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"", his own obituary published in 1739. In 1732, his good friend and collaborator John Gay died. In 1735, John Arbuthnot, another friend from his days in London, died. In 1738 Swift began to show signs of illness, and in 1742 he may have suffered a stroke, losing the ability to speak and realising his"
"Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen; ""c."" 1709 – 29 July 1750) was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet. Her ""Memoirs"" are the source of much of what is known of the personalities and habits of Jonathan Swift and others. Laetitia was born of two distinguished families. Her father was a physician and obstetrician, eventually the president of the College of Physicians for Ireland, and her mother was the niece of Sir John Meade. She was born either in Cork, where her parents lived at their marriage, or Dublin, where they moved by 1711. She married Matthew Pilkington in 1725,"
"Ruskin named him as one of the three people in history who were the most influential for him. George Orwell named him as one of the writers he most admired, despite disagreeing with him on almost every moral and political issue. Modernist poet Edith Sitwell wrote a fictional biography of Swift, titled ""I Live Under a Black Sun"" and published in 1937. Swift crater, a crater on Mars's moon Deimos, is named after Jonathan Swift, who predicted the existence of the moons of Mars. In honour of Swift's long-time residence in Trim, there are several monuments in the town marking"
"years later. He and Swift, after a long estrangement, became friends once more after Stella's death. Stella's friendship with Swift became fraught after 1707 when he met Esther Vanhomrigh, daughter of the Dutch-born Lord Mayor of Dublin. Swift became deeply attached to her and invented for her the name ""Vanessa"". She in turn became infatuated with him and after his return to Ireland followed him there. The uneasy relationship between the three of them continued until 1723 when Vanessa (who was by now seriously ill from tuberculosis) apparently asked Swift not to see Stella again. This led to a violent"
"Constance Isabel Smith Constance Isabel Smith (June 1894–after 1932) was a popular British novelist. She was born in Battersea, London, to Sydney James Smith, a tailor, and Isabel Smith. In 1911 they were living at 7 Spencer Road, New Wandsworth, Battersea, London and Constance was a student. Constance Isabel Smith's novels include ""Adam's First Wife"" (1920), ""Intensity: A Simple Story"" (1921), ""The Escaped Wife"" (1924), ""Storm Dust"" (1925), ""Just Impediment?"" (1925), ""Lotus Lane: The Story of a Marriage"" (1927), and ""The Tenth of March"" (1929). She also wrote under the pseudonyms Isabel Beaumont and Eleanor Reid. Writing as Isabel Beaumont,"
"Jane C. Loudon Jane Wells Webb Loudon (19 August 1807 – 13 July 1858) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She wrote before the term was invented, and was discussed for a century as if she wrote Gothic fiction, or fantasy or horror. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. Jane Webb was born in 1807 to Thomas Webb, Esq., a wealthy manufacturer from Edgbaston, Birmingham and his wife. (Sources vary on her place of birth: according to the"
"top 100 most commonly used names for baby girls in England and Wales in 1934. The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"", where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. Jessica is the seventh most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2015. First appearing in 13th century England, Olivia was popularised by Shakespeare's character in the ""Twelfth Night"" (1602). Vanessa was created by Jonathan Swift in his poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). While it first appeared in late 16th century England, Pamela was popularised after Samuel Richardson"
"referred to as ""Mrs. John Smith"". The only recent time this has broken tradition is with the Sovereign's express consent. Namely, with Queen Elizabeth's aunts Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. The former was not a princess by birth, while the latter was born a princess of Greece and Denmark. Both women asked the Queen to use their given names to avoid confusion with their daughters-in-law's titles after their husbands' deaths. There have been several exceptions in recent history to these rules, but all have come by order of the Sovereign, mostly through letters patent."
"Moore"". Because Bennett was the first American woman to have her fantasy and science fiction widely published, she qualifies as a pioneering female fantasy author. </div> Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called ""the woman who invented dark fantasy"". Her most famous books include ""Claimed"" (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to ""The Argosy"" called ""One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy"
"Cadenus and Vanessa Cadenus and Vanessa is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1712 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: ""Cadenus"" is an anagram of the Latin ""decanus"", meaning ‘dean’: Swift was dean of St Patrick's, and known as Dean Swift in the manner of the time. The neologism is ""Vanessa"", in secret reference to Esther Vanhomrigh. The name starts with the first three letters of her surname and the first two of"
"Samantha Samantha is a feminine given name. It was recorded in England in 1633 in Newton Regis, Warwickshire, England. It was also recorded in the 18th century in New England, but its etymology is uncertain. Speculation (without evidence) has suggested an origin from the masculine given name Samuel and anthos, the Greek word for ""flower"". A variant of this speculation is that it may have been a feminine form of Samuel with the addition of the already existing feminine name Anthea. It remained a rare name until the publication, beginning in 1873, of a novel series by Marietta Holley featuring"
"she holds six ""Guinness World Records"". She has appeared in ""Time"" 100 most influential people in the world (2010 and 2015) and ""Forbes"" lists of top-earning women in music (2011–2015), 100 most powerful women (2015), and Celebrity 100 (2016). Her inclusion in the third of these made her the youngest woman on the list, and she ranked first in Celebrity 100. Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift ( Finlay), was a homemaker who had worked as a"
"Kate Swift Kate Swift (December 9, 1923 – May 7, 2011) was an American feminist writer and editor who co-wrote (with Casey Miller, her business partner and platonic domestic partner) influential books and articles about sexism in the English language. Their early works included the ""Ms. Magazine"" article ""Desexing the Language"" (1971), and the ""New York Times Magazine"" piece ""One Small Step for Genkind"" (1972). The latter grew into the book ""Words and Women: A New Language in New Times"" (1976, rev. 1991). In 1980, they followed with ""The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing"". In 1977, Swift became an associate of"
"1987, A Coffin from the Past, Geoffrey Bles 1970, Chivers Press edition 1987. [9] Inspector Winter, Gwendoline Butler’s First Detective, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/winter.html (April 2011) [10] Tribute to Gwendoline Butler, www.booksmonthly.co.uk/jda.html (February 2014) Gwendoline Butler Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (19 August 1922 - 5 January 2013) was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the ""woman's police procedural"", is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler, and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville. Born Gwendoline Williams on 19 August 1922"
"Annie S. Swan Annie Shepherd Swan (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer, who wrote mainly under her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. As a popular writer of romantic fiction for women, she published over 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943. She has been called ""one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"". Swan was politically active throughout her life: during the war effort of the First World"