Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was born on May 21st 1688, Popes education was effected greatly by a law passed banning all Catholics from voting, attending school, holding any public offices, and teaching. Alexander Popes, Aunt taught him to read and write, and around 1698 he got further education from Twyford school, then in 1699 he was attending two separate Catholic schools, some areas still tolerated the schools even though they were highly illegal.


In 1700 his family moved to a somewhat small estate at Popeswood and Binfield, Berkshire. The cause of the move was due to an anti-Catholic sentiment and statute, preventing any Catholics from living in a 10 mile radius of London or Westminster. Pope would describe the country side around this house in a later poem Windsor Forest.

 During this time Popes formal education had ended, he would self educate himself by reading books and poems by classical writers, some examples are Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and many others, and he had come into contact with figures from a literary society, William Wycherley, William Congreve, Samuel Garth, William Trumbull, and William Walsh.

While in Binfield Pope had made some very important friends, one such being John Caryll, John was twenty years older then Pope, and has made many acquaintances in the London literary world, John is the one whom Pope had met William Wycherley, and william Walsh, and through John he had met the Blount sisters, Teresa, and Martha Blount. Both of which are alleged lovers.

When Pope was 12, he had suffered a great many illnesses, such as Potts disease, Potts disease is a form of Tuberculosis that affects the bone, it had deformed his body and left him with a permanent hunch. His Tuberculosis infection had created other health issues, such as respiratory issues, aches, inflamed eyes, and a series of other health problems.

In Popes early career, around 1709, in May, he had published Pastorals, in the sixth part of Tonson's, Poetical Miscellanies, to which brought Pope instant fame. He followed it up by publishing An Essay on Criticism, in May 1711, Which was equally loved. In 1712, Rape of the Lock was published, and revised in 1714, while in 1713 he had published Windsor Forest. Rape of the Lock was considered his most popular poem.


I will look up his later life in a short period, I am having trouble finding information that looks reliable.

Lobotomy also known as Leucotomy.

Lobotomy was a surgical way to treat mentally 'unstable' patients, Lobotomies were outlawed back in the early nineteen seventies. A man named Walter Freeman, sought to simplify Lobotomies so that a common Asylum surgeon could preform it, Walter Freeman knew that most Asylums were poorly funded, and did not have the facilities to preform a full lobotomy.

In a traditional Lobotomy, the Surgeon would drill two holes on the sides of the skull in the soft temple area, they would alter the two frontal lobes of the brain, in the earliest leucotomy around 1933, Egas Moniz was the first too target the frontal lobes in his procedure.

Around the year 1946, Walter Freeman (Right side) and his assistant James Watts (Left side) preformed the first Transorbital Lobotomy on a live patient, he had first tested his new idea for Transorbital Lobotomies on grapefruits with an ice pick, he wanted to get away from drilling holes on the sides of the skull, and instead found it much easier to go through the eye socket, by lifting the upper eye lid and sliding the tip of the Orbitoclast over the eyeball and reaching a thin layer of skull, which was easily broken with a tap of a mallet, then to reach the opposite frontal lobe, they would angle the tip towards the nose.

Lobotomies were used to help control patients in most asylums, a Lobotomy would be preformed on people with Paranoia's, Obsessive Compulsive states and disorders, Chronic anxieties, and most cases of schizophrenia. A man named Howard Dully even wrote his own book on Lobotomies, having found out late in his life that at the age of 12 his parents had a lobotomy preformed on him.

Another interesting fact is that Rosemary Kennedy, sister of John F. Kennedy, had a leucotomy preformed on her at the age of 23, it permanently left her incapacitated.

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gotta start using this thing again, never really used it much in the first place. I'll do a report later, a full one, unlike Mudd.