Gentleman [ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… this art could now be disseminated to a wider audience that included the literate middling sort. Joseph Addison’s and Richard Steele’s Spectator and Tatler were two such vehicles . The young Dudley Ryder (1691-1756), a Hackney draper’s son, read … that was now adapted to the relationships between a trader or professional and his clients and business contacts. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), middling-sort himself, advised readers of his Familiar Letters of 1741, written as a series of …
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