Background
- Pope says women have no character
- Swift shows inferior qualities of women to show the nastiness of women
- Montagu defends women
Poems
Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women: Alexander Pope
- All females are not the same
- Chloe wants a heart
- Established a relationship between male and female poets
- There is a set way that women should act
- character: unique; perspective
- At this time, women were thought to be vain and lacking reason
- Alexander Pope is the leading writer of his period
- Only one woman in this poem has character and is considered a "softer man," because at this time, men were only thought to have character
- This poem was part of a series
- Pope believed philosophically that women have no character
The Lady's Dressing Room: Jonathan Swift
- Very dirty
- Talks about the roles of women
- Literally talks about ladies' dirty laundry
- 18th century beauty practices weren't very clean
- Beneath makeup and wigs, there is a dirty woman at the end
- London is analogous to women because it looks like a shiny city, but the streets were lined with the contents of chamber pots
A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country:
- Is a satirical poem
- Men have more education so their writing is more important than the works of women
- Calling someone a whore is as bad as calling someone a poetess
The Reasons that Induced Dr S to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room: Lady Montagu
- Montagu sticks up for women
- Montagu tears Swift apart
- Women are in a catch 22 because women are criticized for chasing beauty, but are also criticized if they don't chase beauty
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