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… constructing communities of readers which they endeavoured to instruct and educate. Periodical essayists promoted a Whig reformist agenda, which dictated new forms of sociability along gender lines. They projected an ideal of reasonable … The Free-Thinker (1718-1721), a bi-weekly essay paper coedited by the poet Ambrose Philips and a circle of Hanoverian Whigs, typically ambitioned to teach the readers of both sexes how to ‘philosophize’, 2 a term which meant both to … supported the new regime. In other words they claimed that true male sociability was socially mixed, British, urban, and Whig. 8 8 . As opposed to the landed elite and freeholders who had the reputation of being Tories. Essay periodical also …
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