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Which pseudonym did Richard Steele use in The Tatler?
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Joseph Addison, oil painting by Michael Dahl, 1719; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In The Tatler, Sir Richard Steele wrote under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. This name had previously been made famous by the satirist Jonathan Swift.12