Jonathan Swift
- Longer article from Hertford College, Oxford, Swift's alma mater.
- http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/31/120/

Swift, Jonathan 1667 -- 1745
- Brief biographical entry from Cambridge Encyclopedia and Biography.
- http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=3419

Swift: Johnson's Lives of the Poets
- Samuel Johnson's famous character sketch of Swift, whom he openly despised.
- http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/johnslife.html

Swift: Thackeray's The English Humourists of The Eighteenth Century
- Extensive, anecdotal, hypertext essay by 19th Century author gives Victorian view of Swift.
- http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/thackeray.html

Jonathan Swift: Biographical Introduction
- Long article by W.E.H. Lecky originally published in "The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland" in 1861.
- http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/bio_lecky.html

Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift
- Brief, chatty biography from Incompetech.
- http://www.incompetech.com/authors/swift/

Anecdotes of the Family of Swift
- This "Fragment of an Autobiography" was Swift's incomplete attempt to record his family's history and his own life.
- http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/biography/autobio.html