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
The Spectator from 7 June 1711
Title pages of the c. 1788 edition of the collected edition of Addison and Steele's The Spectator
Joseph Addison
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Joseph Addison was a British writer and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he fo
The Spectator (1711)
…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 featured an essay…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, c. 1703–1712
Joseph Addison: engraving after the Kneller portrait
The actor John Kemble, in the role of Cato, revived at Covent Garden in 1816, drawn by George Cruikshank
Addison in 1719, the year he died