Richard Steele wrote journalism, essays and drama, working with Joseph Addison on periodicals that transformed everyday social observation into regular literary reading. The Tatler and The Spectator mix commentary on manners, marriage, clubs, politics and fashionable life, often using fictional correspondents and recurring social types to create an ongoing public conversation. Steele's own essays tend to be warmer and more openly personal than Addison's, with family feeling and moral sentiment appearing alongside satire. His plays, including The Conscious Lovers, helped move English comedy towards a more sentimental mode in which sympathy and virtue mattered more than purely cynical intrigue. His work fits eighteenth-century periodical writing, journalism history, comedy and moral essays. Read more Less
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