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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.
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Swifteating babiesSarah Hardingsatireeighteenth centuryopen_syllabus_project
First published 1969Characters & people
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DublinIreland
About the author
Jonathan Swift
30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745
Jonathan Swift was an Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift
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