The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele - Including his Familiar Letters to his Wife and Daughters, to Which Are Prefixed, Fragments of Three Plays, Two of Them Undoubtedly Steele's, the Third Supposed to Be Addison's (Paperback)

Sir Richard Steele (1672 1729), soldier, courtier and dramatist, is best remembered for his founding of two literary and political periodicals, the Tatler and the Spectator (the latter jointly with his friend Joseph Addison). These two volumes of his letters to friends and family were compiled by the publisher John Nichols and published in 1809. Nichols claims in his preface that these letters, 'some of them evidently scribbled when their amiable Author was probably not in the very best condition for penmanship', are nonetheless of great interest, 'as they contain the private and undisguised opinions of the man who took upon himself to be the Censor of the age'. In Volume 1, many of the letters are addressed to his second wife (both before and after their marriage), others to Addison, Swift, and the duke of Marlborough. Fragments of two unfinished plays by Steele, and one by Addison, are also included."

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies, Volume 1
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Richard Steele
Editors:	John Nichols
Dimensions:	217 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-07401-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-108-07401-4
Barcode:	9781108074018

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