Will's Coffee House

Will's Coffee House

For several decades after the Restoration, Will's Coffee House in Russell Street, Covent Garden, was the London center of the Wits, centring on the figure of John Dryden, who liked to frequent the coffee house that had been founded by Will Unwin. Will's is mentioned repeatedly in Samuel Pepys' diary.

From their first appearance in London [Pasqua Rosee, a native of Smyrna opened a coffee-house in St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in 1652] coffeehouses were centers of sociability, each one frequented by certain professions, a centre of communication for news and information. At Will's gathered those gentlemen of no profession at all and circulated their scurrilous epigrams and satires, and criticized the latest productions on stage or in print.

After Dryden's death (May 1709), the reputation of Will's declined rapidly. It was severely reviewed by Richard Steele in "The Tatler", 8 April 1709 and fashion soon passed to Button's.

References

* [http://home.att.net/~waeshael/coffee.htm Waes Hael Poetry & Tobacco Club, "The English Coffee Houses"]


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