Misrepresentative Women

Eve, apparently, was the perfect wife: she shared her fruit, married her first suitor, and—despite having almost no wardrobe—never went to the theatre in a matinée hat.

Harry Graham’s comic verses move from Eden to Coventry and into the salons and scandals of his own day, where familiar women arrive with their reputations ready for a playful prodding. His Eve is praised as patient and forgiving; his Lady Godiva rides out to challenge her husband’s taxes, with one local reporter learning the cost of looking. Across portraits of biblical figures, public personalities and social types, Graham’s jaunty rhymes tease both their subjects and the conventions used to judge them. But when a woman becomes the poet’s target, who is really being made ridiculous?

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