Tag: Swift’s printer
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The comedy of Swift Studies – 300 years since the death of John Harding
Today, 19 April 2025, marks 300 years since the death of John Harding, Swift’s Dublin printer. Harding took the risk on Swift’s pseudonymous Drapier’s Letters. For the fourth of these Letters, he was imprisoned to await trial, where he would been interrogated as to the true identity of M. B. Drapier, but that court appearance…
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An inquiry into the death of Swift’s printer, John Harding:
Part 1: evidence through to August 1725 The full-length paper can be freely accessed as a PDF at the ‘Download’ tab below.
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Evidence that Swift’s Drapier’s Letters were prepared by Sarah Harding, not John Harding
This paper was published in Notes & Queries on 3 November 2023. Swift’s Drapier’s Letters all state on their title pages that they were ‘Printed by John Harding of Molesworth’s Court’ but new evidence shows that the actual printing work was performed by Harding’s wife, Sarah. Continued in Notes & Queries.
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Jonathan Swift – evidence that he was involved in a murder in 1724
Jonathan Swift, privy to a murder? Could the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the champion of the Irish people and the man widely considered the greatest ever prose writer in the English language, have been party to the purposeful killing of another human being, his own printer? This is what I am asserting in an aspect…
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‘The death of Swift’s printer John Harding – new evidence that implicates Swift’, Melbourne Irish Studies Seminar Series, 17 November 2020
With an introduction by Professor Dianne Hall. Zoom presentation accessible here.
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”Elegy on the death of John Harding’ (April 1725) – evidence of Swift’s authorship’, presented in the XVII David Nicol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies: Dark Enlightenments, virtual conference, 13 November – 11 December 2020
Video presentation accessible here.
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