This was Mrs. Manley, whose collection of scandal, published under the name of the Atalantis, was nearly the subject of a criminal prosecution. She was employed by Swift in some political hackwork, and little as she deserved respect, his judgment on her was not unkindly. 'She has very generous principles for one of her sort: a great deal of good sense and invention: about forty, very homely, and very fat.' But this did not prevent him from attacking her severely in 'Corinna, a Ballad'