During the Romantic Period, authors Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Montagu were well known masters of satire in their literary works, although they publicly despised each other. The Lady’s Dressing Room, a misogynistic poem published by Swift in 1732, prompted Lady Montagu to pen a scathing response, titled The Reasons That Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem Called the Lady’s Dressing Room. Both poems are strongly satirical works, however, the writer’s uses of satire vary in their portrayal of gender