Q: Who started the journal "The Tattler"?
a) Richard Sheridan
b) Richard Steele
c) Thomas Spray
d) Samuel Richardson
Correct answer: b) Richard Steele
The Tattler By Richard Steele
Richard Steele was born on 12 March 1672 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish writer, playwright and politician in the 18th century. He died on 1st September 1729 in Carmarthen, Wales. The Tatler was a periodical launched in London by the essayist Sir Richard Steele in April 1709. "The Tatler" was published with 271 issues in all. It appeared 3 times a week: on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. He wrote this periodical under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff and gave Bickerstaff an entire, fully developed personality. Steele described his motive in writing " The Tatler" as ' to express the false arts of life, to pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, affection and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behaviour
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