
Coffee
In Our Time: History
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Coffee Houses and Periodicals
Coffee houses did develop in the major ports and towns around britoin, norwich, bristol, york and so forth. The great dramatist and poet john dryden held court in in will's coffee house in covent garden. And then richard steele and joseph addison who kind of invented a genre which which put the coffee house on paper. They invented a thing called periodical literature. So that trice weekly, or regular er, not quite newspaper, but journal with an essay about an important issue.
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