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The paper relates that traditionally, women have transformed themselves in private, primping and preening behind closed doors, emerging scrubbed and manicured as if by magic. The paper discusses how Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) destroyed the mystery of the woman's dressing room and of her process in his poem "The Lady's Dressing Room," a poem published somewhere around 1732, around 13 years prior to his death in 1745.

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"Traditionally, women have transformed themselves in private, primping and preening behind closed doors, emerging scrubbed and manicured as if by magic. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) destroyed the mystery of the woman's dressing room and of her process in his poem "The Lady's Dressing Room," a poem published somewhere around 1732, around 13 years prior to his death in 1745. "The Lady's Dressing Room" has been debated over the past two and a-half centuries by its readers over two conflicting responses. Some find the poem a light-hearted view of the male perspective on the ways of women."

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