Just So Stories Just So Stories Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most distinctive features, such as how the leopard got his spots. For the book, Kipling illustrated
The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem Call'd the Lady's Dressing Room is a poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu published in 1734. The poem is a satire and was written in response to a poem by Jonathan Swift entitled "The Lady's Dressing Room". The poem is part of a poetic duel between the two poets, in which Montagu attacks Swift's character and suggests that he wrote "The Lady's Dressing Room" as a result of his sexual frustration and impotence. Both poems