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	Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia
		Hij ging niet op haar avances in, maar zij volgde hem naar Ierland toen haar ouders stierven.
		Hoewel er geen bewijs voor is, is het wel zeker dat zij hem zeer lief was.
		Wat betreft Esther Vanhomrigh: zij schijnt in 1723 een crisis te hebben veroorzaakt in haar relatie met Swift.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Swift (650 words)

	Dean Swift And The Two Esthers
		When Swift first met her, Esther Johnson was only eight years old; and part of his duties at Moor Park consisted in giving her what was then an unusual education for a girl.
		Esther Johnson, through her long acquaintance with Swift, and from his confidence in her, had come to treat him almost as an intellectual equal.
		Miss Vanhomrigh, on the other hand, was one of those girls who, though they have high spirit, take an almost voluptuous delight in yielding to a spirit that is stronger still.
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	SWIFT - LoveToKnow Article on SWIFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After a brief residence with his mother, who was needlessly alarmed at the idea of her son falling a victim to some casual coquette, Swift towards the close of 1689 entered upon an engagement as secretary to Sir William Temple, whose wife (Dorothy Osborne) was distantly related to Mrs Swift.
		Swift was twenty-two and Esther eight years old at the time, and a curious friendship sprang up between them.
		Swift may have learned that Esther means star from the Elemenla linguae persicae of John Galaves or from some Persian scholar; but he is more likely to have seen the etymology in the form given from Jewish sources in Buxtorfs Lexicon, where the interpretation takes the more suggestive form Stella Veneris.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SW/SWIFT.htm (8081 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Jonathan Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Swift began his Journal to Stella in 1710; Stella was his private name for Esther Johnson, who was then living in Dublin.
		The only other woman in Swift's life was Esther Vanhomrigh, daughter of a Dublin merchant of Dutch descent.
		Vanhomrigh (whom Swift also taught and whom he referred to as Vanessa) became passionately enamored of him, but he did not return her love.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761575255___3/Jonathan_Swift.html (250 words)

	Jonathan Swift : a short biography
		At this time he met Esther Vanhomrigh, who was to become the 'Vanessa' of his poetry.
		He composed the poem Cadenus and Vanessa in 1712 (45) as 'a task performed on a frolic among some ladies', and it was at this point that Esther Vanhomrigh, the Vanessa of the poem, made her declaration of love, which he did not return, claiming that he had only aimed at cultivating her mind.
		Esther Vanhomrighe, whose mother had died and who had property in Ireland, followed him, taking up her abode at Cellbridge, a few miles from Dublin.
	www.adnax.com /biogs/js.htm (1326 words)

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		There he supervised the education of Esther Johnson (1681—1728), daughter of the widowed companion to Temple’s sister.
		Swift’s Journal to Stella (Stella being the private name by which the author addressed Esther Johnson, now living in Dublin, in a series of intimate letters) was begun in 1710.
		The only other woman in Swift’s life was Esther Vanhomrigh (1690—1723), daughter of a Dublin merchant of Dutch descent.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/stpatricksday/index.jsp?page=personalities5 (854 words)

	Jonathan Swift: A Brief Biography
		There Swift read extensively in his patron's library, and met Esther Johnson, who would become his "Stella," and it was there, too, that he began to suffer from Meniere's Disease, a disturbance of the inner ear which produces nausea and vertigo, and which was little understood in Swift's day.
		While in London he he met Esther Vanhomrigh, who would become his "Vanessa." During the next few years he went back and forth between Ireland and England, where he was involved--largely as an observer rather than a participant--in the highest English political circles.
		In 1710, which saw the publication of "A Description of a City Shower," Swift, disgusted with their alliance with the Dissenters, fell out with Whigs, allied himself with the Tories, and became the editor of the Tory newspaper The Examiner.
	www.victorianweb.org /previctorian/swift/bio.html (971 words)

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		Vanhomrighs, and, as he found his new pupils as eager to receive as he was to impart instruction, he devoted himself with assiduity to his pleasant task.
		Esther Vanhomrigh so the story runs having discovered his intimacy with Stella, wrote to her, requesting to know the nature of her connection with Swift.
		Vanhomrighs death he was, in truth, involved in a laby- rinth, out of which it was not merely diffi- cult, but simply impossible, to extricate himself.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ndlpcoop/nicmoas/livn-1/livn0159.sgm (19701 words)

	Gulliver's Travels Study Guide / Gulliver's Travels Summary
		He wrote about the poverty he saw amongst the people, he wrote about his friendships with two notable women (Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh), he wrote about the typical daily life of city folk, and he wrote about the problems he witnessed in the social order.
		Perhaps because of his more modern and honest philosophy, Swift fell in love with Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom he invented the name "Vanessa," which appears in much of his poetry.
		Unfortunately, the two lovers never married, for Esther ("Vanessa") died in 1722, before the publication of Gulliver's Travels.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/gt/BIO.htm (676 words)

	Vanessa - InformationBlast
		The name was invented by Irish writer Jonathan Swift and given to 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 "Esse", the pet form of Esther.
		The poem had been written in 1713 by Swift himself, but wasn't published until three years after Vanhomrigh died.
	www.informationblast.com /Vanessa.html (102 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Vanessa
		is Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, and Cade’nus is Dean Swift.
		While he was still married to Stella [Miss Hester Johnson, whose tutor he had been] Miss Vanhomrigh fell in love with him, and requested him to marry her, but the dean refused.
		Hester Johnson was called Stella by a pun upon the Greek aster, which resembles Hester in sound, and means a “star.” Miss Vanhomrigh was called Van-essa by compounding Van, the first syllable of her name, with Essa, the pet form of Esther.
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	Jonathan Swift - Books and Biography
		In Moor Park Swift also was the teacher of a young girl, Esther Johnson.
		He called her Stella and when she grew up she become an important person in his life.
		Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708, and whom he had tutored, followed him to Ireland after her mother had died.
	www.readprint.com /author-79/Jonathan-Swift (1033 words)

	Swift, Jonathan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1689 he became secretary to Sir William Temple at Moor Park, Surrey, where he formed his lifelong attachment to Esther Johnson, the “Stella” of his famous journal.
		Disappointed of church preferment in England, Swift returned to Ireland, where he was ordained an Anglican priest and in 1695 was given the small prebend of Kilroot.
		The intensity of his relationship with her, as with Stella, is questionable, but Vanessa died a few weeks after his final rupture with her in 1723.
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		Swift says that Esther Johnson was born on March 18, 1681; in the parish register of Richmond,[1] which shows that she was baptized on March 20, 1680-81, her name is given as Hester; but she signed her will "Esther," the name by which she was always known.
		Vanhomrigh, with her two daughters, Hester and Mary, were able to mix in fashionable society in London.
		In the meantime the intimacy with the Vanhomrighs grew rapidly.
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		Among these persons was a Miss Hester–or Esther– Vanhomrigh, the daughter of a rather wealthy widow who was living in London at that time.
		She knew all his moods, some of which were very difficult, and she bore them all; though when he was most tyrannous she became only passive, waiting, with a woman's wisdom, for the tempest to blow over.
		It was at this time, after he had become dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, in Dublin, that Swift was married to Esther Johnson– for it seems probable that the ceremony took place, though it was nothing more than a form.
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		Esther found a lover whom Swift repulsed, to the infinite joy of the devoted girl, whose fate was already linked for good or evil to that of her teacher and friend.
		Esther Vanhomrigh had great taste for reading, and Swift, who seems to have delighted in such occupation, condescended, for the second time in his life, to become a young ladys instructor.
		Before Miss Vanhomrigh had made much progress in her studies she was over head and ears in love, and, to the astonishment of her master, she one day de- clared the passionate and undying character of her attachment.
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	Jonathan Swift - Thackery's ENGLISH HUMOURISTS
		Vanhomrigh: then that he has been to "his neighbour:" then that he has been unwell, and means to dine for the whole week with his neighbour!
		Vanhomrigh's, where my best gown and periwig was, and out of mere listlessness dine there very often; so I did to-day.
		But Miss Vanhomrigh, irritated at the situation in which she found herself determined on bringing to a crisis those expectations of a union with the object of her affections-to the hope of which she bad clung amid every' vicissitude of his conduct towards her.
	www.jaffebros.com /lee/gulliver/biography/thackeray.html (12597 words)

	Chapter Valerian <i>to</i> Vatican of V by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		To scollop an edge after the fashion of the collars painted by Vandyck in the reign of Charles I. The scolloped edges are said to be vandyked.
		Vanessa is Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, and Cadenus is Dean Swift.
		Hester Johnson was called Stella by a pun upon the Greek aster, which resembles Hester in sound, and means a “star.” Miss Vanhomrigh was called Vanessa by compounding Van, the first syllable of her name, with Essa, the pet form of Esther.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1187/24471/2.html (590 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Esther
		Esther, book of the Old Testament, one of those constituting the third part—the Writings—of the Hebrew canon (Bible); it was one of the last books to...
		Swift also encouraged the work of a number of women writers.
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	encarta.msn.com /Esther.html (101 words)

	Jonathan Swift. William Makepeace Thackeray. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this time he wrote the famous “Drapier’s Letters” and “Gulliver’s Travels.” He married Hester Johnson, Stella, and buried Esther Vanhomrigh, Vanessa, who had followed him to Ireland from London, where she had contracted a violent passion for him.
		He finds Miss Vanhomrigh to be a woman of great taste and spirit, and beauty and wit, and a fortune too.
		He sees her every day; he does not tell Stella about the business; until the impetuous Vanessa becomes too fond of him, until the Doctor is quite frightened by the young woman’s ardour, and confounded by her warmth.
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		Vanhomrigh, the widow who lived near him; she meant her daughter Esther.
		When he was in Suffolk Street the Vanhomrighs were in St. James's Street and thus saved him a walk.
		At the same time Stella had only to hint that these Vanhomrighs were people of no consequence for him to retort, "Why, they keep as good female company as I do male.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks03/0301251.txt (20622 words)

	UTEL: Jonathan Swift Page
		An ardent pacifist who loathed cruelty, imperialism and war, he wrote many pamphlets on religion and war and during the course of frequent visits to London did much to try and improve the political situation in Ireland.
		The details of his daily life in London are recounted in a series of intimate letters to Esther Johnson, published as Journal to Stella.
		He was also very close to Esther Vanhomrigh, whom he met in 1708, and his final rupture with her in about 1723 may have hastened her death.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /utel/authors/swiftj.html (327 words)

	Chapter Valladolid <i>to</i> Vanoc of V by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Vanessa, Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, a young lady who proposed marriage to dean Swift.
		Esther, and Van, the pet form of Vanhomrigh; hence Van-essa.)
		Vanity, a town through which Christian and Faithful had to pass on their way to the Celestial City.
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	Jonathan Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Supervisó la educación de Esther Johnson, hija de la recién enviudada hermana de Temple, y permaneció con el caballero hasta su muerte, en 1699.
		Stella era el nombre que él utilizaba para dirigirse a Esther Johnson, quien por entonces vivía en Dublín.
		La otra mujer de la que se tiene noticia en la vida de Swift fue Esther Vanhomrigh, también alumna suya, hija de un comerciante de Dublín de origen holandés, y a la que él llamaba Vanessa, se enamoró perdidamente de su tutor, pero él no correspondió nunca a ese amor.
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	Johathan Swift
		His father was dead before Jonathan, Junior was born, so the child's education was arranged by other relatives.
		He found a job as secretary to Sir William Temple, and it was in Sir William's household that he met Esther (Stella) Johnson and became her tutor.
		Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708, and whom he had tutored, followed him to
	www.wordtrade.com /literature/swiftR.htm (3762 words)

	Vanessa (poem) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The name was invented by Irish writer Jonathan Swift and given to Esther Vanhomrigh whom had met in 1708 and whom he tutored.
		The name created by taking "Van" from Vanhomrigh's last and adding "Esse" the pet form of
		The poem had been written in 1713 by Swift himself but wasn't published three years after Vanhomrigh died.
	www.freeglossary.com /Vanessa_(poem) (352 words)

	jonathan swift, biography jonathan swift, jonathan swift biography, modest proposal, gullivers travel, picture, poem, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With the accession of George I, the Tories lost political power and Swift withdrew to Ireland.
		Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708, followed him to Ireland, where she later proposed marriage to him.
		Swift rejected it and wrote the poem 'Cadenus and Vanessa' and in 1723 he broke off the relationship.
	www.eliterature.com.ar /swift_jonathan (1246 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - George Berkeley: Sceptic, Philosopher and Bishop
		He was also friends with Jonathan Swift, who called him 'an absolute philosopher', in the sense of one who does what is right rather than what is gratifying or convenient.
		Swift had a wealthy lover, Esther Vanhomrigh, whose story he told in the poem Cadenus and Vanessa
		Vanessa was one of his pet names for Esther Vanhomrigh, derived from 'Essy-Van': and this is in fact the origin of the name Vanessa.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3390554 (2036 words)

	Jonathan Swift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stella era el nombre que él utilizaba para dirigirse a Esther Johnson, residente en Dublín.
		Los especialistas no tienen muy claro cuál era el tipo de relación que existía entre tutor y alumna.
		La otra mujer de la que se tiene noticia en la vida de Swift fue Esther Vanhomrigh, también alumna suya, hija de un comerciante de Dublín de origen holandés.
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