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Esther Johnson (13 March 1681 – 28 January 1728) was an Englishwoman known to have been a close friend of Jonathan Swift, known as "Stella". Whether or not she and Swift were secretly married, and if so why the marriage was never made public, is a subject of debate.
- 28 January 1728 (aged 46)
Journal to Stella, series of letters written (1710–13) from Jonathan Swift in London to Esther Johnson and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, in Ireland. Esther (Stella) was the daughter of the widowed companion of Sir William Temple’s sister. Swift, who was employed by Sir William, was Stella’s tutor.
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Information. Journal to Stella. Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710–1713. , pp. xxxi - lxxxvii. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9780521841665.003. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2013. Access options. Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
Johnson, Esther (1681–1728) Irish woman immortalized as Jonathan Swift 's "Stella." Name variations: Hetty Johnson. Born in 1681; died in Dublin, Ireland, on January 28, 1728; daughter of William Temple 's steward; probably secretly married to Jonathan Swift (the satirist), in 1716.
3 de set. de 2021 · Book description. The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift's letters to Esther Johnson, or 'Stella', and Rebecca Dingley, written between September 1710 and June 1713, offers an extraordinary commentary on Swift's experiences in London during the most politically active and exciting years of his career and evidence of his evolving ...
- Jonathan Swift
- 2014
Contents. Esther Johnson. British friend of Swift. Also known as: Stella. Learn about this topic in these articles: association with Swift. In Jonathan Swift: Years at Moor Park. Here, too, he met Esther Johnson (the future Stella), the daughter of Temple’s widowed housekeeper.
Carpenter, Andrew. Johnson, Esther (1681–1728), Jonathan Swift's ‘Stella ’, was born 13 March 1681 in Richmond, Surrey, England, daughter of Bridget Johnson, housekeeper to Sir William Temple (qv) of Moor Park in Surrey. It was rumoured, from early in her life, that Esther (or Hester, as she had been baptised) was the illegitimate ...
