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.
Vanessa O'Loughlin Vanessa O'Loughlin Vanessa O’Loughlin (Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin) is an Irish author, and literary agent. In 2006, O'Loughlin moved from a career in event management to self-employment, founding Inkwell Writers Workshops to run fiction-writing workshops taught by bestselling published writers. During the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn, the company was renamed The Inkwell Group and became a publishing consultancy, assisting new writers to move forward with their careers. O'Loughlin publishes romantic fiction as "Vanessa Fox," and crime fiction as "Sam Blake." In 2015 the Bonnier Twenty7 signed O'Loughlin to write a three book series of crime novels featuring detective Cat Connolly and