Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… a contemporaneous club called The Toasters, the two clubs joint funding at least one theatre production in January 1700. Addison described the Kit-Cat as a club ‘founded upon Eating and Drinking’, 2 many members were corpulent, and its … Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they bolstered the … offering advancement. This applied too to Dr Samuel Garth (1661-1719), who knew Stepney at Cambridge, and to Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (1672-1729), whose friendship began at Charterhouse school and who joined the Club c.1704-5. 7 …
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