Sir Richard Steele

This was the first periodical for women to take advantage of the monthly format, which was still fairly new. Unlike other magazines, it used fiction as its staple, while also including advice on behaviour, relationships...

The melodramatic sketch Pride and Passion relates how the engagement of Hargrave and Helena is broken after Hargrave reveals the story of his past romance with Abra, a poor Mulatto girl. This reads like...

EB 's preface alludes to Steele'sTatler, and calls the slow, sure Snail . . . the well-meant, altho' weak Attempt of a mere Woman. After an introductory poem, her basic unit for...

MMS began making up stories in her sixth year, but wrote later, what they were I have not the least idea. I was too young to write them down; but when I had thought of...

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

Richard Steele in the Tatler, 13 and 24 May, took up the cudgels for SC , and argued against condemning a work on grounds of the author's gender. Later in the year The...

Sir Isaac Newton admired ET 's earliest essays (that is, attempts at writing). Thomas Parnell praised her Apollo and Daphne in a poem which he contributed to Steele 's Poetical Miscellanies, 1714 (which actually...

MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele .

Richard Steele in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day. Around this same time, Swift wrote a poem celebrating AF for winning poetic fame in the...

Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend). Going behind George Colman 's stage version...

Between the first and second volumes of the New Atalantis, Steele attacked DM in Tatler no. 63 (not for the first time) as dispensing poison with her tongue.

Steele provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. The epilogue, by Matthew Prior , prophesied a great future for female dramatists (ironically, since this was DM 's last play)...

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

Richard Steele in The Spectator lumped MP with Behn and other writing women as unlearned, skilled only in the luscious Way.

David Simple predates all fictional work by Samuel Johnson and all but the earliest works by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson , which are sometimes mistakenly spoken of as its models. It may be seen...