New Letters to the Tatler and Spectator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Richmond Pugh, 1899-1979, ed.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English letters.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1959]

Summary:

Ninety-six letters to the Tatler and the Spectator, representing what is probably the largest extant body of unpublished material relating directly to the two journals, appeared for the first time in print in this book. The original letters were not published in the Tatler or the Spectator, but they were preserved by the editors and eventually found their way into the Marlborough and the Tickell collections. They have been prepared for publication and edited, with notes and an introduction, by an authority in the field of early periodicals. The letters will be of especial interest to students of early eighteenth-century England, for few literary forms more clearly reflect the times in which they are written than the letter, particularly the letter to the editor. A wide range of writers is represented—the inarticulate and the witty, the serving maid and the gentleman. Subject matter is equally diverse, including such topics as women's petticoats, free thinking, the state lottery, the nuisance of a smoking wife, cock-throwing, and Platonic love. Why the letters were not published in the Tatler or the Spectator is a matter for conjecture. Some of them were apparently used by Addison or Steele as topics for essays. Occasionally a letter was received or rewritten by the editors and printed in an altered form. Whatever the reason for their survival, these letters will be of value to students of language and literary journalism, social conditions, and popular philosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

LETTERS to the TATLER

1 FOLLIES OF THE TOWN

2 AN EXPERIENCE WITH SHARPERS

3 A THREAT FROM A SHARPER

4 DENTAL HYGIENE

5 SUPPORT FOR BICKERSTAFF AGAINST SHARPERS

6 VIRTUE AND RICHES

7 EXTEMPORE PRAYERS

8 LOVE FOR MR. BICKERSTAFF

9 DEXTEROUS WAYS OF NEWS WRITERS

10 USHER AT THE TABLE OF FAME

11 CURE OF THE SPLEEN

12 CANES IN A PUBLIC HOUSE

13 THE SPEAKING DOCTOR OF KENSINGTON

14 A RICH QUAKER LADY

15 A PIOUS WIDOW

16 PLATONIC LOVE BY CORRESPONDENCE

17 VERSES TO BE PREFIXED TO THE TATLER

18 TRUTHFUL WRITING

19 EXPORTATION OF GRAIN

20 LIVELY DEAD MEN

21 WOMEN AS SCANDALMONGERS

22 SEDUCTION OF YOUNG VIRGINS

23 RUM FELLOWS

24 AN ACCIDENT WITH A CANE

25 REPRINTING OF THE TATLER

26 RULES ABOUT LAUGHTER

27 REQUEST FOR THE TATLER

28 LASHING ATTORNEYS

29 ABUSE OF THE LAW

30 LETTING OF CHAMBERS TO A TRADESMAN

31 NOISE AND KNOCKERS

32 MATRIMONIAL PREROGATIVES

33 LADIES' RIDING HABITS

34 WIDE QUILTED PETTICOATS

35 FUNERAL OF A SHARPER

36 BICKERSTAFF'S BREAKING OF HIS WORD

37 PETITION OF LACEMEN

38 DRAMA AND OPERA

39 OPERA

40 AN INJURED AUTHOR

41 A GLISTER DRIVER

42 TROUBLES OF A SERVANT MAID

43 A VISIT TO A COUNTRY RELATION

44 A VISION OF LOVE

45 A LUSTFUL SEA CAPTAIN

46 GRATITUDE AND NOBLE RESOLUTIONS

47 REASON AND RELIGION

48 HUMBLE THANKS FROM THE CHANTICLEERS

49 LADIES5 PAINT AND COCK-KNOCKING

50 GAMING, ELECTIONS, AND WOMEN'S PORTIONS

51 SCHOLARSHIPS FOR BOYS

52 REVENGE OF AN INJURED MISTRESS

53 A NOISY KNIGHT

54 INTELLIGENCE FROM EDINBURGH

55 FALSE REPORT OF MARRIAGE

56 ABUSE OF CREDIT BY NOBLEMEN

57 CHARACTERS OF DR. SACHEVERELL

58 SERVANTS AS GUARDIANS

59 "GOOD MR. BICKERSTAFF"

60 A SMOKING WIFE

61 PETTICOATS

62 LADIES' LETTERS TO MEN

63 A LOVER'S DISAPPOINTMENT

64 REQUEST TO ANSWER FORMER LETTERS

65 LOVE AND COQUETRY

66 REQUEST TO INSERT A FORMER LETTER

67 A QUARREL BETWEEN FENCING MASTERS

68 PROMOTION OF COOK TO BARKEEPER

69 A MARRIED WOMAN'S DILEMMA

70 FRIENDSHIP

LETTERS to the SPECTATOR

71 AN OVERBEARING FATHER

72 A LADY WITH TWO SUITORS

73 "FOLLOW NATURE"

74 MULTIPLICATION TABLE AND BEAU AT BATH

75 A VICIOUS FRIEND

76 THE DEATH OF A BELOVED WIFE

77 TEXT FROM LUCAN AND VERSES TO MR. SPECTATOR

78 A TRUTHFUL TRADESMAN

79 LADIES AS LANDLORD

80 AN IMPATIENT LOVER

81 A LOTTERY HOAX

82 DIVINE VERSES

83 INEQUALITY OF SOULS

84 ADVANCEMENT OF VIRTUE

85 UNDERSTANDING AND COUNSEL

86 RELIGION AND CHARITY

87 MARRIAGE FOR MONEY

88 A CLUB OF CORPORAL WITS

89 CHIROMANCY

90 A LOVER'S REPENTANCE

91 LOVE CASUISTRY

92 CHOICE OF EMPLOYMENT

93 THE RUIN OF A YOUNG LADY

94 THE JOINING OF TWO SOULS

95 AN ALCHEMIST

96 AN INTIMATION OF IMMORTALITY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-76979-2

OCLC:

931539095