Esther Johnson [Stella]

(1681-1728)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Johnson, Esther, 1681-1728 DNB: Johnson, Esther [Stella] (1681-1728), friend of Jonathan Swift LBT ID: EsJohns1728 VIAF ID: 50038614 LOC ID: n50047796	B/BAP: 1681-03-13 DIED: 1728-01-28
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The lifelong friend of Jonathan Swift and object of his birthday verses; they were rumored to be secretly married.
REFERENCES TO Esther Johnson [Stella]: illiam Hazlitt sen. to the Editor of the Monthly Repository; [July 1808] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 8 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Wedding day odes and epigrams Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 11 [Hugh Swinton Legaré], “Byron’s Letters and Journals” in The Southern Review 7 (May 1831) 1-42 Found 1: ¶ 25 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1814 Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter II 1825 Found 1: ¶ 14 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter VIII Found 1: ¶ 14 Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter XVII Found 1: ¶ 23 Chapter XXXVII Found 1: ¶ 7 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XVII 1820