Later in 1709,
Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new paper
The Tatler by naming the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. as editor.
The Tatler had occasional contributions from Swift, although largely written by Steele and
Joseph Addison.
Benjamin Franklin based the persona of "Poor Richard", the author of ''
Poor Richard's Almanack'', on Swift's Bickerstaff character. In
Jules Verne's 1895 novel
Propeller Island, the governor of the titular island is named Cyrus Bikerstaff, in tribute to Swift's character.
H. P. Lovecraft used the pseudonym "Isaac Bickerstaffe [sic], Jr." in 1914 for a series of letters to the editor of
The Providence Evening News, refuting the predictions of an astrologer the paper published. The Canadian caricaturist Don Evans (born Toronto, 1936) published in 1975–85 three volumes of cartoons under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. He lives in Orillia, Ontario, where he is active in local politics. Personal archives including 300 drawings are at the University of Calgary. In the novel
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) and its
eponymous 2018 film adaptation, the lead character, author Juliet Ashton, writes under the pen name Izzy Bickerstaff. Adam J. Smith and Jo Waugh of
The Conversation and
Patricia Casey, writing for the
Irish Independent, have suggested that fictional Twitter user
Titania McGrath, created by comedian and
Spiked columnist Andrew Doyle, was influenced by Bickerstaff. ==References==