Joseph Addison

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Standard Name: Addison, Joseph

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Boyd
The third and final letter in the series is written by Montezella. It mentions a story which is postponed to a future letter, but includes a poem, Verses extempore, on Commodore Anson , with a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text John Oliver Hobbes
JOH sometimes discusses her own writing, career, and ambition: One's place in literature is a possession—never a concession. And one knows one's place. I don't wish to be judged—one way or the other—till I am...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
JB 's true attitude to her own poetic vocation is hard to fathom. In An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison she calls herself the meanest of the tuneful...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Tollet
The volume opens with translations from classical authors, and includes two psalms translated into Latin.
Londry, Michael, and Elizabeth Tollet. The Poems of Elizabeth Tollet. Oxford University.
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ET also translated from the sixteenth-century Latin of George Buchanan . One poem, Ariette, was listed as set...
Textual Production Helen Maria Williams
This volume also included work by Milton , Dryden , Addison , Pope , Carter , and Barbauld .
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
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Textual Production Lucy Aikin
LA published The Life of Joseph Addison: the first biography of her subject, which includes the text of a number of previously unpublished letters.
Aikin, Lucy. The Life of Joseph Addison. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
812 (20 May 1843): 477-9
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB edited and published Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder, by Addison and Steele and others (with 1804 on the title-page).
McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
LMWM wrote an epilogue (not used on stage) to Joseph Addison 's famous tragedy, Cato.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Essays and Poems and Simplicity, A Comedy. Editors Halsband, Robert and Isobel Grundy, Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Matilda Betham
Like most of her peers, MMB maintained a lively correspondence. Some of it is reproduced in A House of Letters, edited by Ernest Betham (though he prints more letters to than from her). She...
Textual Production Elizabeth Singer Rowe
An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison, published in February 1720 by a Lady, is attributed to ESR in a contemporary note on the title-page of a...
Textual Production Frances Sheridan
Sheridan had hired Theophilus Cibber for the summer season; Cibber, predictably, made trouble, in this case over a production of Addison 's Cato. Frances Chamberlaine's verse was printed in a pamphlet of this year...
Textual Production Judith Sargent Murray
The future JSM wrote a history (probably fiction) when she was nine, which years later she disparaged as an imbecile effusion.
Skemp, Sheila L. Judith Sargent Murray. A Brief Biography with Documents. Bedford Books.
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As she grew up she became prolific in letters and in occasional...
Textual Production Jane Brereton
Again as a Lady and through William Hinchliffe , JB printed An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the death of Mr. Addison.
Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
SC complimented Anne Oldfield 's acting in Addison 's Cato, with a poem written in Oldfield's copy of Fontenelle 's Plurality of Worlds.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
SC 's later occasional poems include an epistle to and pastoral elegy on her fellow-playwright Nicholas Rowe and a twenty-first birthday poem for Addison 's stepson.
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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14 December 1704: Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a...

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14 December 1704

Joseph Addison published The Campaign, a patriotic poem celebrating Marlborough 's victory of Blenheim.

12 April 1709: Richard Steele began issuing his ground-breaking...

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12 April 1709

Richard Steele began issuing his ground-breaking periodicalThe Tatler, using the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff and declaring his intention of reporting topics of talk from all the London coffeehouses.

2 January 1711: Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking...

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2 January 1711

Richard Steele ceased publishing his ground-breaking periodical, The Tatler.

1 March 1711: Joseph Addison began to publish the Spec...

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1 March 1711

Joseph Addison began to publish the Spectator.

19 May 1711: Joseph Addison, in a famous Spectator essay...

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19 May 1711

Joseph Addison , in a famous Spectatoressay in praise of trade and the Royal Exchange , described Englishwomen as clad in exotic clothes, like spoils or tribute from all over the world.

21 June 1712: Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that...

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21 June 1712

Joseph Addison wrote in the Spectator that a man of refined taste would take more pleasure from looking at a landscape than from owning the land.

27 September 1712: Addison, in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged...

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27 September 1712

Addison , in his role as Mr Spectator, obliged to look into all kinds of men, reported on the status of the Jews in England.

6 December 1712: Joseph Addison and his associates ceased...

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6 December 1712

Joseph Addison and his associates ceased publishing The Spectator.

14 April 1713: Joseph Addison's influential classical tragedy,...

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14 April 1713

Joseph Addison 's influential classical tragedy, Cato, opened.

18 June 1714: Addison, helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas...

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18 June 1714

Addison , helped by Eustace Budgell and Thomas Tickell , began publishing a continuation of the Spectator.

December 1715: Joseph Addison began publishing a political...

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December 1715

Joseph Addison began publishing a political periodical, The Freeholder.

1767: At auctions of copyright, Richardson's Clarissa...

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1767

At auctions of copyright, Richardson 's Clarissa was valued at £600, but Addison and Steele 's Spectator at £1,300, Shakespeare at £1,800, and Pope at £4,400.

Texts

Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison. Selections from the Tatler and Spectator. Editor Ross, Angus, Penguin, 1982.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Addison, Joseph et al., editors. The Spectator (1711-1714). Clarendon Press, 1965.