Title: A modest proposal
First published: 1969
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
Places: Dublin, Ireland
People: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Sarah Harding (1700 - c. 1740)