Sir Richard Steele

12 March 1672 - 01 September 1729

Standard Name: Steele, Sir Richard

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Hodgson Burnett	FHB began writing this novel in Washington, but completed it in her grand house in Portland Place, London, which is also the setting for the heart of the story. This story she conceived...
Intertextuality and Influence	Eliza Haywood	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...
Intertextuality and Influence	A. Woodfin	She learns to condemn her parents' treatment of her when she boards in a family who deliberately favour the ugly, deformed one of their young twins, to redress the balance. She feels a great relief...
Intertextuality and Influence	Caroline Bowles	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. Bowles, Caroline. The Widow’s Tale and Other Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. 158 This reads like...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Tollet	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...
Literary responses	Susanna Haswell Rowson	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). Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 38 , No. 2, 1 Mar.–31 May 2002, pp. 200-22. Going behind George Colman 's stage version...
Literary responses	Susanna Centlivre	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. Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press, 1952. 98 Later in the year The...
Literary responses	Delarivier Manley	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. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998. 279
Literary responses	Mary Astell	MA was attacked in Tatler number 32, ostensibly for A Serious Proposal, by either Swift or Steele . Steele, Sir Richard, and Donald F. Bond, editors. The Tatler. Vol. 3 vols., Clarendon Press, 1987. 1:238-41 Perry, Ruth. The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist. University of Chicago Press, 1986. 228-9
Literary responses	Anne Finch	Richard Steele in the Tatler (number 10) praised Tonson's miscellany for collecting the best pastorals of the day. McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press, 1992. 93 Around this same time, Swift wrote a poem celebrating AF for winning poetic fame in the...
Literary responses	Delarivier Manley	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...
Performance of text	Delarivier Manley	Steele provided managerial help (and money, and a prologue) towards its stage success. Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol. 5 , No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5. 3 The epilogue, by Matthew Prior , prophesied a great future for female dramatists (ironically, since this was DM 's last play)...
Publishing	Susanna Centlivre	It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, Monthly Catalogue, 1714 - 1717. Bernard Lintot, 3 vols. 1 (no. 1): 4 with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...
Reception	Mary Pix	Richard Steele in The Spectator lumped MP with Behn and other writing women as unlearned, skilled only in the luscious Way. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 414
Textual Features	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...

Timeline

23 January 1720

The Lord Chancellor (the Duke of Newcastle ) closed Drury Lane Theatre for several days because of a dispute with its licensee, Steele .

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

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7 November 1722

Richard Steele 's The Conscious Lovers (his final play) was first performed.

The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.

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.

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

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