Vanessa (name) Vanessa (name) Vanessa is a feminine given name, especially popular in the United States, Germany and Brazil. It was invented by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708 and whom he tutored. The name was created by taking "Van" from Vanhomrigh's last name and adding "Essa", a pet form of Esther. In 1726 the name Vanessa appeared in print for the first time in "Cadenus and Vanessa", an autobiographical poem about Swift's relationship with Vanhomrigh. Swift had written the poem in 1713, but it was not published until three years after Vanhomrigh died.
I Have Said Nothing going." Hypertext author Stuart Moulthrop called the work "superb...finely balanced between savagery and sympathy." I Have Said Nothing "I Have Said Nothing" is an early work of hypertext fiction written by J. Yellowlees Douglas. In 1993 it was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in "The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (Winter 1994, volume 1 number 2)", along with “Lust” by Mary-Kim Arnold. In 1997, Norton Anthology published an online (albeit truncated) version of the work, along with Michael Joyce's "afternoon, a story" as part of its print publication "Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction". The plot of "I Have Said