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… Conference (1763) and The Candidate (1764), the latter of which famously begins its most revealing stanza with: ‘Whilst Womanhood, in habit of a Nun / At M—— lies, by backward Monks undone’. 19 18 . John Hall-Stevenson, The Works of John … The Candidate, 1764, p. 33. As an answer, Sandwich accused Wilkes of having composed the incendiary An Essay on Woman (~1755), a sexual and blasphemous parody of Pope’s An Essay on Man (1733-34) addressed to Fanny Murray. The Essay …
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