Gentleman
[ Taste & Manners / Politics & Society ]
… 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 these periodicals inter …
… Journal (vol. 45, n°4, 2002), p. 898. 3 . Erin Mackie (ed.), The Commerce of Everyday Life, Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Boston: Bedford St Martin’s), The Spectator n° 411. 4 . In n° 11, Steele creates the character …