Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… advancement. This applied too to Dr Samuel Garth (1661-1719), who knew Stepney at Cambridge, and to Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (1672-1729), whose friendship began at Charterhouse school and who joined the Club c.1704-5. 7 . Mentioned as ‘the … p. iii. 8 . Promoting the opera Rosamund with a libretto by Kit-Cat member Joseph Addison, for example, fellow Kit-Cat Richard Steele reported that ‘our English poets have not been behind hand with our English Heroes in reducing the French …
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