Richard Steele
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Sir Richard Steele was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
Portrait by Jonathan Richardson, 1712
c. 1712 kit-cat portrait of Steele by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Steele's house at Llangunnor, near Carmarthen, 1797
Of the 271 essays published in The Tatler journal, Joseph Addison (left) wrote 42, Steele (right) wrote roughly 188, and the rest were collaborations between the two writers.
The Spectator (1711)
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The Spectator was a daily publication published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in London, England, from 1711 to 1712. Each "paper", or "number", was approximately 2,500 words long, and often fea
Richard Steele
…Sir Richard Steele (c. 1671 – 1 September 1729) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison. Steele was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1671 to Richard Steele, a wealthy attorney, and Elinor Symes (née…
The Spectator from 7 June 1711
Title pages of the c. 1788 edition of the collected edition of Addison and Steele's The Spectator