nown to be
the friend of Aaron Hill, Esq., who stood not high in Pope Alexander's
good graces. And finally Pope may have honestly believed that she was
responsible for a lampoon upon him in person. In "A List of Books,
Papers, and Verses, in which our Author was Abused, Before the
Publication of the Dunciad; with the True Names of the Authors,"
appended to "The Dunciad, Variorum" of 1729, Mrs. Haywood was credited
with an anonymous "Memoirs of Lilliput, octavo, printed in 1727."[4] The
full title of the work in question reads, "Memoirs of the Court of
Lilliput. Written by Captain Gulliver. Containing an Account of the
Intrigues, and some other particular Transactions of that Nation,
omitted in the two Volumes of his Travels. Published by Lucas Bennet,
with a Preface, shewing how these Papers fell into his hands." The
title, indeed, is suggestive of such productions as "The Court of
Carimania." In the Preface Mr. Lucas Bennet describes himself as a
schoolfellow and friend of Captain Gulliver, which is reason enough to
make us doubt his own actuality. But whether a real personage or a
pseudonym for some other author, he was probably not Mrs. Haywood, for
the style of the book is unlike that of her known works, and the
historian of Lilliput indulges in some mild sarcasms at the expense of
women who "set up for Writers, before they have well learned their
Alphabet," Either before or after composing his lines on Eliza, however,
Pope chose to attribute the volume to her. The passage which doubtless
provoked his noble rage against shameless scribblers was part of a
debate between Lilliputian Court ladies who were anxious lest their
having been seen by Gulliver in a delicate situation should reflect on
their reputations. The speaker undertakes to reassure her companions.

"And besides, the inequality of our Stature rightly consider'd, ought
to be for us as full a Security from Slander, as that between Mr.
P--pe, and those _great_ Ladies who do nothing without him; admit him
to their Closets, their Bed-sides, consult him in the choice of their
Servents, their Garments, and make no scruple of putting them on or
off before him: Every body knows they are Women of strict Virtue, and
he a Harmless Creature, who has neither the Will, nor Power of doing
any farther Mischief than with his Pen, and that he seldom draws, but
in defense of their Beauty; or to second their Revenge against some
presuming Prude, wh