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 …
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