TY - BOOK AU - Steele,Richard,Sir AU - Addison,Joseph AU - Aitken,George Atherton TI - The Tatler, Volume 1 AV - PR PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - English wit and humor -- Periodicals KW - English essays -- 18th century -- Periodicals KW - Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1702-1714 -- Periodicals N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tatler_(1709_journal); Release date is 2004-10-05; Produced by Jon Ingram and PG Distributed Proofreaders; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Tatler, Volume 1" by Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison is a literary and society journal published between 1709 and 1711. Using the invented persona of Isaac Bickerstaff, Steele created a revolutionary approach to journalism by blending real gossip from London coffeehouses with fictional tales. The publication featured cultivated essays on contemporary manners and Whiggish views, pretending to station reporters at the city's most popular coffeehouses. This groundbreaking periodical established patterns that would influence British essayists for generations to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13645 ER -