The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele

Including his Familiar Letters to his Wife and Daughters, to Which Are Prefixed, Fragments of Three Plays, Two of Them Undoubtedly Steele's, the Third Supposed to Be Addison's

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Richard Steele

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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Sir Richard Steele (1672–1729), soldier, courtier and dramatist, is best remembered for his founding of two literary and political periodicals, the Tatler and the Spectator (the latter jointly with his friend Joseph Addison). These two volumes of his letters to friends and family were compiled by the publisher John Nichols and published in 1809. Nichols claims in his preface that these letters, 'some of them evidently scribbled when their amiable Author was probably not in the very best condition for penmanship', are nonetheless of great interest, 'as they contain the private and undisguised opinions of the man who took upon himself to be the Censor of the age'. Volume 2 contains letters to his wife and daughters, and to literary and political figures of his day, including Sir Robert Walpole, Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, the duke of Newcastle, and the theatre managers Cibber and Booth.

Release date Australia

May 22nd, 2014

Author

Richard Steele

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by John Nichols

Pages

372

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Dimensions

140x216x24

ISBN-13

9781108074025

Product ID

22275720

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