Richard Steele

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Irish writer essayist journalist person playwright

Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.

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Richard Steele canonical 9

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instanceOf Irish writer ⓘ
essayist ⓘ
journalist ⓘ
person ⓘ
playwright ⓘ
birthDate 1672-03-12 ⓘ
birthPlace Dublin ⓘ
Kingdom of Ireland ⓘ
burialPlace St Peter’s Church, Carmarthen ⓘ
citizenship Kingdom of England ⓘ
coFounded The Spectator ⓘ
The Tatler ⓘ
coFounderWith Joseph Addison ⓘ
countryOfActivity England ⓘ
deathDate 1729-09-01 ⓘ
deathPlace Carmarthen ⓘ
Wales ⓘ
educatedAt Charterhouse School ⓘ
Merton College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicity Irish ⓘ
familyName Steele ⓘ
genre comedy ⓘ
essay ⓘ
periodical literature ⓘ
givenName Richard ⓘ
influenced English periodical essay ⓘ
English prose style ⓘ
language English ⓘ
movement Augustan literature ⓘ
name Richard Steele self-link ⓘ
notableWork The Guardian ⓘ
The Spectator ⓘ
The Tatler ⓘ
occupation essayist ⓘ
playwright ⓘ
politician ⓘ
publisher ⓘ
writer ⓘ
parliamentaryRole Member of Parliament ⓘ
politicalAlignment Whig Party ⓘ
surface form: Whig
religion Anglicanism (broadly) ⓘ
surface form: Anglicanism
servedInParliamentFor Stockbridge ⓘ
Wendover ⓘ
spouse Mary Scurlock ⓘ
wrote The Christian Hero ⓘ
The Conscious Lovers ⓘ
The Funeral ⓘ
The Lying Lover ⓘ
The Tender Husband ⓘ

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Augustan literature → notableAuthor → Richard Steele ⓘ
Alexander Selkirk → describedBy → Richard Steele ⓘ
The Conscious Lovers → author → Richard Steele ⓘ
The Conscious Lovers → writer → Richard Steele ⓘ
The Conscious Lovers → hasPrologueBy → Richard Steele ⓘ
The Conscious Lovers → hasEpilogueBy → Richard Steele ⓘ
Richard Steele → name → Richard Steele self-link ⓘ
Thomas Tickell → associatedWith → Richard Steele ⓘ
Thomas Parnell → associatedWith → Richard Steele ⓘ