{"product_id":"the-naming-of-esthers","title":"The Naming of Esther(s)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne man. Two women, both christened Esther. He renamed them both.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=arPReR6t79g4VjFESvVWEwyWBGeZlO5Bufw3ECOcdJT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=lkx7ma2ME0Yg3Tvv0sFvIOla883aSODMgBLdlFWyQBB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/05DWsz3T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eKindle edition on Amazon →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the back cover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift could rule a kingdom with his pen and could not say one plain word to the two women who loved him. He drew Esther Johnson across a sea and called her Stella. He met Esther Vanhomrigh in a London supper-room, made her Vanessa out of her own name, and could not keep her from following him to Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years he held them a dozen miles and one silence apart: the clever woman by the cathedral who signs herself spinster in her own hand, and the ardent one out at Celbridge who will not be loved at a distance. Then a dying woman writes the single letter that forces the question he has spent his whole life refusing to answer, and the wall he built around himself comes down on all three of them at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn from Swift's own letters and verse and from the rumours that outlived them all, \u003cem\u003eThe Naming of Esther(s)\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a man who could name anything but the thing he felt, and of the two women who wore the names he gave them to the grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA novel of Jonathan Swift, Stella, and Vanessa.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeverly McLeod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubtitle: A Novel of Jonathan Swift and the Lost Keeping of Vanessa and Stella\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA standalone novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 82 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:1.4em;font-size:0.9em;line-height:1.55;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilm and television inquiries:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"mailto:hello@northlume.org?subject=Film%20and%20television%20inquiry%3A%20The%20Naming%20of%20Esther%28s%29\"\u003ehello@northlume.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:1.6em;font-size:0.82em;line-height:1.5;color:#7a7168;text-align:left;\"\u003eCover art: details from \u003cem\u003eStella\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVanessa\u003c\/em\u003e, John Everett Millais, 1868. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trace Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44680136097834,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/esthers-front.jpg?v=1786293381","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/products\/the-naming-of-esthers","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}