Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… and practices, especially after the consolidation of Whig political hegemony after the Hanoverian accession. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Keywords Literature Manners Periodicals Politeness Whigs Wit Joseph Addison … and held the offices of Chief Secretary for Ireland (1708-1710; 1714-1715) and Secretary of State for the Southern Department (1717-1718). But it was his work as a periodical essayist for The Tatler and The Spectator that brought Addison … modest gentility as the son of the Dean of Litchfield, Lancelot Addison (1632-1703), Addison was educated first at Charterhouse School, where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Richard Steele , and later at Oxford University. …
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