The Kit-Cat Club was an early 18th-century London literary and political club associated with Whig writers and public figures such as Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, and Sir Samuel Garth. It is remembered in literary history because several major writers belonged to it, and because many members were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the famous kit-cat portrait format.
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Addison and Steele were both linked to the Kit-Cat Club, where writers and statesmen met over dinner to talk politics, wit, and literature.