… to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee houses.’ ( The Spectator n° 10 , 12 March 1711) Addison’s and Steele’s … Coffeehouse Milieu in Post-Restoration England’, History Workshop Journal (51, 2001), p. 127–157. 8 . Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2019). The gradual assimilation … debates about coffeehouse sociability has led some commentators to believe that coffeehouses were ultimately replaced by clubs as the eighteenth century wore on. In fact, the history of clubs and coffeehouses remained intertwined throughout …