Anecdotes of the Family of Swift - http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html
This "Fragment of an Autobiography" was Swift's incomplete attempt to record his family's history and his own life. |
Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift - http://www.incompetech.com/authors/swift/
Brief, chatty biography from Incompetech. |
Jonathan Swift: Biographical Introduction - http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/bio_lecky.html
Long article by W.E.H. Lecky originally published in "The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland" in 1861. |
Swift, Jonathan 1667 -- 1745 - http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9500342
Brief biographical entry from Cambridge Encyclopedia and Biography. |
Swift: Johnson's Lives of the Poets - http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/johnslife.html
Samuel Johnson's famous character sketch of Swift, whom he openly despised. |