A Modest Proposal

Description:

Swift's black satire in which the Proposer, after a protracted prologue foreshadowing a new measure for the nation to adopt with respect to its youngest children, finally announces it - at one year old they would make an excellent stew, ragout, or fricassee, and child-bearing mothers could engage in robust competition to see who could bring the fattest baby to market.

subjects: Swift,  eating babies,  Sarah Harding,  satire,  eighteenth century,  open_syllabus_project,  Examinations,  Study guides

People: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745),  Sarah Harding (1700 - c. 1740)

Places: Dublin,  Ireland