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The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele Richard Steele

The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele By Richard Steele

The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele by Richard Steele


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These two volumes of the letters of Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), founder of the Tatler and the Spectator, were compiled by the publisher John Nichols and published in 1809. In Volume 1, many of the letters are addressed to his second wife, others to literary and political friends.

The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele Summary

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 by Richard Steele

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'. In Volume 1, many of the letters are addressed to his second wife (both before and after their marriage), others to Addison, Swift, and the duke of Marlborough. Fragments of two unfinished plays by Steele, and one by Addison, are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface; The School of Action, a comedy; Fragment of a play; The first act of a tragedy; Epistolary correspondence, letters 1-328.

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NLS9781108074018
9781108074018
1108074014
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 by Richard Steele
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Cambridge University Press
2014-05-22
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