Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… he saw as ‘the Seat of Wit’. 7 The periodical also made use of letters from readers (in one case, Steele used his own love letters to his wife), 8 and therefore contributed significantly to the fashion for epistolary narratives as a … overlapped (both should be virtuous and adept at conversation, and much of the periodical’s content considered love, from the perspective of both sexes), but they had different characteristics: a women’s mental and moral improvement … though he had little to say about slavery beyond a story in The Spectator about a merchant who sold his ‘Indian’ lover in Barbados into slavery, even though she was carrying his child, a story that moved Steele to ‘tears’, though …
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