Sir Richard Steele

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...

His cousin Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote that HF and Sir Richard Steele were both so form'd for Happiness, it is a pity they were not Immortal.

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...

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...

It was dedicated to Steele and had a prefatory essay by John Porter . It was several times re-issued (latterly by the disreputable publisher Edmund Curll ), and the title changed from edition to edition...

These poems relate or embroider on a tale of interracial lovers whose original source is a bare paragraph in Richard Ligon 's History of Barbados, 1657. From this Richard Steele created Yarico on...

EH published two novels, The Fatal Secret; or, Constancy in Distress, dedicated to William Yonge (who had just made a huge profit from divorcing his wife ), and The Surprize; or, Constancy Rewarded...

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...

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.

She was rumoured, too, to have had an affair with the writer Richard Steele .

She was, however, a good friend of Richard Steele during the time of her relationship with Tilly. She helped Steele find a midwife when he had fathered an illegitimate baby. The friendship ended when he...

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)...

This takes the form of a letter from the country. It mounts a bitter attack on Steele .

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...

She was unhappy that Sargent 's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the...