Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… as the major partner), The Spectator (1711-12) and The Guardian (1713). He and Addison were associated with Child’s Coffee House and were also members of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, which was both political club and socio-cultural space. … its invented characters as a format (it sought to have the ‘air of common speech’); 5 reported conversations in the coffee houses such as Will’s and White’s; and encouraged conversation amongst its readers. 4 . Sir Richard Steele, The … ‘ philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools, and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee–houses’. 9 Readers were encouraged to set aside part of their morning to read the paper ‘as a part of the …
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