Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… the people on whose labour and service polite society rested. The subscribers of the 1712-13 edition were drawn from the ranks of the aristocracy, merchants, financiers, and officeholders. 19 Steele owned, through his first wife, a …
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