The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in which year, 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 such as Samuel Johnson's "Rambler", an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer?
Tatler (1709 journal) 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 Steele's "Spectator", Samuel Johnson's "Rambler" and "Idler", Goldsmith's "Citizen of the World", and influence essayists as late as Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. Addison and Steele liquidated "The Tatler" in order to make a fresh start with the similar "Spectator", and the collected issues of "Tatler" are usually published in the same volume as the collected "Spectator".
Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of several dictionaries, including his "Universal Etymological Dictionary", which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's "Dictionarium Britannicum" (1730 and 1736) was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his "Dictionary of the English Language" (1755).