Jonathan Swift

•  Swift Grew up fatherless. He was raised by uncle because his mother could not care for him due to no steady income.
•  Born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30, 1667
• Best remembered for his 1728 book Gulliver’s Travels.
• He suffered from Meniere's Disease - a condition of the inner ear that leaves the afflicted nauseous and hard of hearing - as a child.
• Married Esther Johnson who was fifteen years his junior.

      II.            "What I am writing is not a chronicle biography," cautions Victoria Glendinning of Jonathan Swift, but rather what the early-18th-century satirist and his contemporaries would have thought of as a "character," a prose portrait in which, as she puts it, Glendinning "[circles] a little, gradually zooming in on the man himself, until the central questions about him can finally be confronted in close-up." – Victoria Glendinning

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  “We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” – Jonathon Swift