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… lists to fund his publication of Caesar’s Commentaries (1712), the first collected volume of essays from The Tatler (1710), and Steele’s bestselling pamphlet The Crisis (1714). He treated the Club’s literary members as an … Neither essayist appears to have been members of any other club prior to 1711, therefore Bickerstaff’s club in The Tatler (1709-11) and The Spectator Club in The Spectator can both be seen as fictional variations upon their own …
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