Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… by early eighteenth-century writers and theorists of sociability such as Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in their Tatler (1709-1711) and Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) periodicals. In The Spectator , Addison famously declared: ‘I shall be … Due to its prominence as a setting for some of the best-known works of eighteenth-century literary production, from the Tatler and The Spectator to The Life of Johnson , the coffeehouse has played an important role in the way in which …
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