Opinion] Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing Room & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room : r Poetry Opinion] Jonathan Swift's The Lady's Dressing Room & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room : r Poetry In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 1882), Favorite Poems [Image: Portrait of the Artist's Wife (The Elegant Woman with The Lady's Dressing Room Brit Lit Reading Journal