Swift was born November 30, 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. Swift’s father was a lawyer and an English civil servant; he died seven months before his son was born. Abigail Erick, his mother, was left without private income to support her family. Swift was taken or stolen to England by his nurse, and at the age of four he was sent back to Ireland. His mother returned to England and she left her son to her wealthy brother-in-law Uncle Godwin. When Jonathan returned to Ireland in September he was accompanied by Stella. There’s a great deal of mystery and controversy over Swift’s relationship with Stella. Many people believe that they were secretly married in 1716. Swift’s mother had left with her only other child, Jane to live in her native town of Leicester. Swift continued to regard his mother with undiminished affection and respect. Her death, though preceded by a tedious illness,

Jonathan Swift was a social critic who wrote satirical Gulliver’s Travels. Swift left his mark in education, politics, and religion. He helped people by donating money to charities and by building an Asylum for the Insane.

Swift made several trips to London and gained fame with his essays. Throughout the reign of Queen Anne he was one of the central character’s in the literary and political life of London. In the poem Cadenus and Vanessa 1713 he wrote about the affair “Each girl, when pleased with what is taught will have the teachers in her thought.” Swift left behind a great mass of poetry and prose chiefly in the form of pamphlets. Exploring the Merits of both the Ancients and the modern in literature was called the Battle of the Books in 1697.

shook and depressed him profoundly. The lonely life of a fatherless child is later reflected in Swift’s relationships with women. Jonathan Swift’s melancholy and depression increased and as the unhappy years passed his mind gradually declined. His physical illness (mainly deafness and vertigo) made him helpless fighting the insanity he feared which ultimately overcame him.

Swift studied at Kilkenny Grammar School (1674-82) an

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