![]() ![]() It is unclear whether Swift ever formally married, but he was very close to Esther Johnson, known as Stella, whom he had met through Temple. Gulliver's Travels (1729) is the only book for which he received any money (£200) and he never wrote under his own name. His political satires form a large amount of his life's work and include the famous essay, A Modest Proposal (1729), where he suggests that the solution to the starvation of the poor in Ireland is that they should eat their own children. ![]() Together with other writers, they founded a literary group called the Martinus Scriblerus Club in 1713. He was himself thought by many to be insane in his later years.Īlthough nominally a Whig, Swift became editor of the Tory journal the Examiner His first major work, A Tale of a Tub, was published 1704 and through the development of his writing career he became close friends with the poet Alexander Pope. In 1713 he became dean of St Patrick's.Swift gave one third of his income to charities and used his own money to fund St Patrick's Hospital for Imbeciles. After becoming secretary to Sir William Temple in England, Swift returned to Dublin where he was ordained. Swift's father was a lawyer who had gone to Ireland after the Restoration, but he died before his son's birth. Jonathan Swift was born on 30th November 1667 in Dublin, and educated at Trinity College in that city and Oxford University. ![]()
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