Swift
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Swift
（Cambridge library collection, . English men of letters）
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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"This digitally printed version 2011"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1882
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) came from a distinguished family of politicians, jurists and writers, and was the father of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. His literary career began with writing about his great passion, the Alps, and he became a noted author and critic, and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. He was a friend of John Morley (1838-1923), the general editor of English Men of Letters, who commissioned him to write three biographies for the first series, on Swift, Pope and Johnson. Stephen is very interested in the family connections and history of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the great satirist and moralist, and he blends direct sources with general conclusions in an informal style which makes the work (first published in 1882) of continuing interest today. Stephen's Sketches from Cambridge, published anonymously in 1865, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Table of Contents
- 1. Early years
- 2. Moor Park and Kilroot
- 3. Early writings
- 4. Laracor and London
- 5. The Harley administration
- 6. Stella and Vanessa
- 7. Wood's Halfpence
- 8. Gulliver's Travels
- 9. Decline.
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