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Jonathan Swift's Word-Book

A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand
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Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift's dictionary of words and definitions for his protege Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift's corrections in Johnson's text, essays comparing Swift's dictionary to others available at that time and exploring the social and psychological milieu in which it was written, and detailed appendices.
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Background by Panthea Reid Elias and Me by John Irwin Fischer Preface by Ann Cline Kelly A Note on This Text by Panthea Reid Introduction: Part I "But who shall arbitrate on Stella's Hand?" by John Irwin Fischer Introduction: Part II Pygmalion Reversed: Joined in Obscurity by John Irwin Fischer Introduction: Part III "Our late Friend" by John Irwin Fischer Introduction: Part IV Swift the Lexicographer: His "Explanation of Difficult English Words" Rediscovered by A. C. Elias, Jr. The Word-Book: A Vocabulary by Jonathan Swift, Transcribed by Esther Johnson and, Almost Three Hundred Years Later, by A. C. Elias, Jr. Appendix A: Surviving Documents Said to Be in Esther Johnson's Hand by John Irwin Fischer Appendix B: Documents Supposed to Display Esther Johnson's or Rebecca Dingley's Hand by John Irwin Fischer Appendix C: Matthew Concanen's Miscellaneous Poems (1724) Including Two Poems Sometimes Attributed to Esther Johnson by John Irwin Fischer Appendix D: A Checklist of Early English Dictionaries by A. C. Elias, Jr. Appendix E: Sample Entries from the Word-Book Compared with Other Contemporary Dictionaries by A. C. Elias, Jr. Appendix F: Littleton's English/Latin, Latin/English Dictionary by John Irwin Fischer Selected Bibliography Index About the Editors
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