Biography jonathan stella swift

Irish woman immortalized as Jonathan Swift's "Stella." Name variations: Hetty Johnson. Born in 1681; died in Dublin, Ireland, on January 28, 1728; daughter of William Temple's steward; probably secretly married to Jonathan Swift (the satirist), in 1716.

The diplomat, Sir William Temple of Moor Park, in Surrey, England, was related by marriage to Jonathan Swift's mother Abigail Errick Swift .

For ten years, Jonathan Swift became his amanuensis "for board and twenty pounds per year" (1689–99). About five years into Swift's stay, he "made love to a very pretty dark-eyed young girl who waited on Lady Giffard," wrote Lord Macaulay.

Little did Temple "think that the flirtation in his servants' hall, which he perhaps scarcely deigned to make the subject of a jest, was the beginning of a long unprosperous love which was to be as widely famed as the passion of Petrarch or of Abelard.… Lady Gif-fard 's waiting-maid was poor Stella."

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