Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset was skewered in satire by the essayist who was Dean of what Dublin cathedral?
Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Elizabeth Whately Elizabeth Whately (died 1860), name before marriage Elizabeth Pope, and sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Pope Whately, was an English writer, and the wife of Archbishop Richard Whately. She wrote and edited a number of fictional, religious and educational works, though little of her writing appeared explicitly under her own name.