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1861 - Esther Johnson, born on the 18th of March in England. She was the English friend of Jonathan Swift, known as "Stella".
1728 - Died this year.
2006 - Newfoundland-born author Trudy J. Morgan-Cole wrote a novel in detailing fictionalized portions of the Swift/Johnson friendship in The Violent Friendship of Esther Johnson. A ward in St Patrick's Hospital is named "Stella."
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