"The Lady's Dressing Room" is a poem by Jonathan Swift. It
describes an upper-class woman's room during the Romantic Period, and focuses on some
areas of the room that are not pleasant or attractive. It compares a woman's process of
getting ready to industry and agriculture, evoking the smells and sights of hard work,
dung, etc. The poem is humorous and satirical. It points out how the process used to
make women beautiful is actually not so beautiful!
Mary
Wortley Montagu responded to the poem by writing "The Reasons that Induced Dr S to write
a Poem call'd the Lady's Dressing room." In her poem, she implies that Swift had called
a prostitute and found disastrous results, which then induced him to write his satire
about women. The second link below goes into more detail on ths
point.
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