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… Periodicals Politics Women Gendered sociability in the English periodical essay While seventeenth-century English newspapers and the political press were largely associated with male coffeehouse sociability – customers could read the papers for the price of a cup of coffee – the leisure press which emerged after 1689 in the form of the periodical essay … the luxurious parapharnelia of tea by the upper and middling ranks and could be a popular pedagogical instrument. That papers favoured mixed sociability is confirmed by the very format of the journals. Periodical essays were commonly headed …
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