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  1. www.britannica.com › biography › Esther-VanhomrighEsther Vanhomrigh | friend of Swift | Britannica

    Contents. Esther Vanhomrigh. friend of Swift. Also known as: Vanessa. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Swift. In Jonathan Swift: Withdrawal to Ireland of Jonathan Swift. …his life of another woman, Esther Vanhomrigh, whom he named Vanessa (and who also appeared in his poetry)?

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  3. www.wikiwand.com › en › articlesEsther Vanhomrigh - Wikiwand

    Esther Vanhomrigh or Van Homrigh (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.

  4. www.wikiwand.com › en › Esther_VanhomrighEsther Vanhomrigh - Wikiwand

    Esther Vanhomrigh or Van Homrigh (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.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cadenus_and_VanessaCadenus and Vanessa - Wikipedia

    Cadenus and Vanessa" is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1713 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. [1]

  6. swiftandvanessa.com › about-the-festivalThe Love Story - Swift and Vanessa

    Esther van Homrigh was the daughter of Bartholomew Van Homrigh, a merchant of Amsterdam and afterwards of Dublin. He was Lord Mayor of Dublin 1697–8. Her mother, also named Esther, was the daughter of John Stone, an Irish commissioner of revenue.

  7. www.dib.ie › biography › van-homrigh-vanhomrigh-esther-hesterVan Homrigh (Vanhomrigh), Esther (Hester) - dib.ie

    Van Homrigh (Vanhomrigh), Esther (Hester) (1688–1723), Jonathan Swift's (qv) ‘Vanessa’, was born 14 February 1688 in Dublin, eldest of the four children of Bartholomew Van Homrigh (qv), a wealthy Dublin merchant of Dutch extraction who had provided supplies for the forces of William III (qv) during the Irish wars, and who served as lord ...

  8. en.wikisource.org › Vanhomrigh,_Esther,_or_VanessaA Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Vanhomrigh, Esther, or Vanessa

    Esther Vanhomrigh was the daughter of a widow lady in affluent circumstances, in whose house Swift was domesticated when he was in London. Of her personal charms little has been said; Swift has left them unsung, and other authorities have rather depreciated them.