… . The Tatler , which was very much Steele’s inspiration, took on the persona of Isaac Bickerstaffe, the creation of JonathanSwift and others a year earlier (and Swift contributed to the periodical). The successful formula was to offer cultural comment (including theatre criticism, …
… their spouse, children and servants. The household was depicted as a sort of happy and apolitical commonwealth. 12 11 . JonathanSwift coined the phrase in his Journal to Stella : ‘I’ll not meddle with the Spectator – let him fair-sex it to the …