Swift was personally acquainted with many women writers. During his London years in the reign of Queen Anne, he repeatedly encountered Delarivier Manley and Anne Finch. Later, over the course of daily life in Dublin, he formed his own female ‘senate’ of writers, including Mary Barber and Laetitia Pilkington. However, this chapter focuses on two underexplored aspects of Swift and women writers. The first section reconsiders Swift’s earliest and longest collaborative relationship with a woman writer, Esther Johnson, whom Swift had taught as a child. The second section looks at his later reception by women writers, including Maria Edgeworth and Margaret Atwood.