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Reginald P.C. Mutter
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Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. Editor of The History of Tom Jones.

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Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele was an English essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician, best known as principal author (with Joseph Addison) of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator. Steele’s father, an ailing and somewhat ineffectual attorney, died when the son was about five, and the boy was…
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