Isaac Bickerstaff: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

In 1709 Richard Steele and Joseph Addison took the name as a temporary pseudonymn for their publication The Tatler. Later, Jonathan Swift took Isaac Bickerstaff as the name of an astrologer created in 1720 as an April Fool's Day hoax.

See also Isaac Bickerstaffe, an eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish playwright.