Van wie was Esther Vanhomrigh?

Esther Vanhomrigh or Van Homrigh (known by the pseudonym Vanessa; c. 1688 – 2 June 1723), an Irish woman of Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published posthumously. Her fictional name,Vanessa, was created by Swift by taking Van from her surname, Vanhomrigh, and adding Esse, a pet form of her first name, Esther.

She was fictionalized as Vanessa in Swift's poem Cadenus and Vanessa (1713). In the poem, he wrote:

Jonathan Swift (Dublin, Ierland, 30 november 1667 – aldaar, 19 oktober 1745) was een Iers prozaschrijver, dichter, pamflettist en satiricus.