Joseph Addison

1672-1719. Scholar, politician, dramatist/poet, journalist/essayist and member of the Kit-Kat Club. Famous for his collaborations with Richard Steele on the moral weeklies The Tatler and The Spectator.

Sources

"Joseph Addison". The Dictionary of National Biography. Volume I Abbadie-Beaden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 122-131.