A pamphleteer in love: the unsolved secret of the love of the great Swift (6 photos)

Jonathan Swift is not only our beloved Gulliver. The writer was also a publicist, priest, poet, philosopher. But in Personally, Swift had, as they say, everything is complicated.





The writer's love was so painful that he tried keep her object at a distance. And at the same time he suffered from loneliness and inability to express your feelings.



The family in which the future great Irishman was born writer, was noble, but impoverished. And its members, as if realizing that now the restraining levers and counterweights do not work, they did what wanted. So, Jonathan's father went to work in Ireland, but instead he married a beautiful beggar woman. And he died before he was 30 years old and without waiting for the birth of his son.

Probably largely for this reason, the guy who did not know his father, very skeptical of the institution of marriage. The main part of his life worked to simply earn a living. And that's why all kinds of romantic shusi-pusi considered meaningless, harmful and avoided love. But still, Jonathan continued to be a man. And in one fine day found himself sitting on top. top love triangle.

Star





The name Stella is translated from Latin as a star. So he called his beloved - Esther Johnson, whom he met when she was only 8 years old. Then Swift was in the service of a distant rich relative who took care of the orphan Esther. Jonathan took part in her upbringing, served as a teacher. When he managed to get his church parish in Ireland, the girl went with him. Who was Esther for Jonathan? Researchers and biographers have not come to a single opinion. Some believe that they were only good friends. Other insist on a love affair. And others are sure that the couple got married. She only kept the fact of marriage a secret from everyone.



Esther Johnson (Stella)

The most plausible version looks like a secret wedding, but it is possible that there was never any intimacy between them. After After the move, Esther settled in the house next door with her companion. She never stayed alone with Jonathan, only with witnesses.

Remarkably, all these rules were invented by Swift. For It was painful for Stella to be near her lover, but at the same time constantly at a distance. And the girl fell into the abyss of depression. The man is not understand the reasons for this state of affairs. But he was afraid to ask and sent a friend talk to Stella. She said that she was tired of playing cat and mouse and wants to get married. Reluctantly, the man agreed to the wedding. But even after him, chastity of relations and meetings were preserved only in the presence of third parties.

Another?



Perhaps Swift would never have taken this step had it not been for the life of another woman, Vanessa Vanomri. She was complete the opposite of pious Stella - bright, impulsive, energetic. And yet Vanessa fell in love with Jonathan like a cat and didn't saw other men around. In many ways, this probably contributed emotionality and a tendency to dramatize events.

Worthy suitors wooed her twice, but she both refused. And she continued to dry on the writer, for 8 years. When we went rumors about the secret marriage of her lover, Vanessa wrote a letter to Stella and demanded an answer - are they husband and wife to each other?

Even the restrained girl could not stand it and demanded the abbot to rein in the rival. On what basis does she even ask similar questions? Swift went to Vanomri, silently threw on the table letter and left, slamming the door.

Three months later, Vanessa was gone. Causes of death unknown, but it is known that shortly before her death, she changed her will. If earlier Swift was indicated as the only heir in it, now he was not mentioned at all in the document.



Five years later, his Zvezdochka also died. For a writer this became an irreparable loss. For ten years he was seriously ill, at the end of his life stopped talking to others altogether. No, the writer's mind is not confused. He understood perfectly what was happening. And that's why he, a man strong and courageous, it was even harder.

When his Star went out, the world, previously illuminated by a smile Stella, plunged into pitch darkness, leaving only silence and impenetrable night.