The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years It represented a new approach to journalism featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics Addison and Steeles Spectator Samuel Johnsons Rambler and Idler Goldsmiths Citizen of the World and influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt Ad...