Biography:Richard Steele is best known as co-founder, with Joseph Addison of The Spectator magazine in 1711. This was one of the earliest daily publications, with its aim "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality."
Steele was an essayist, having written the majority of the articles for his first journal, The Tatler. Subsequently he wrote for The Spectator, as well as putting out moral and comedic works.
1705-04-23 Richard Steele's play "Tender Husband" premieres in London
1709-04-12 Richard Steele's British literary and society journal "The Tatler" is first published establishing a new type of journalism featuring essays on contemporary manners
1711-03-01 Richard Steele and Joseph Addison publish the 1st edition of "The Spectator" in London to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality"
1714-01-19 Richard Steele publishes "Crisis" defending Hanoverian success
1722-11-07 Richard Steele's sentimental comedy play "The Conscious Lovers" premieres in London
Quotes by Richard Steele
"Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery."
Anne Rice
Mary Wollstonecraft
Tove Jansson
August Wilson
Eugene Ionesco
Günter Grass