Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… and fellow soldier-writer Sir John Vanburgh, as well as to an extensive patronage network of Whig leaders. The club’s reputation for genteel sociability was enhanced by a series of portraits painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, including the … of the Public Sphere trans Thomas Burger with Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989), p.27, 31. For all his reputation as a figure central to the moderating influence of The Spectator , Steele could also be a highly partisan …
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