John Churchill first Duke of Marlborough

EH 's preface to this epistolary novel presents herself as the (plural) Editors of actual letters. Her hero's name (Colonel Horatio M——s or Manners) and descent (from the late Duke of R—l—d) tie him and...

Docile her longest work of prose fiction, is also autobiographical in its scarifying yet comic account of the naive and idealistic Docile's repeated victimisation. Endowed with perfect docility as a fairy gift, educated first by...

Manley made fairly unlikely allegations that CT had affairs with John Tilly (she calls them, after fictional characters, Calista and Cleander),

SLP 's husband, whom she married in about 1694, was Sir George Piers , whose family origins lay in Sussex but whose estate was at Stonepit or Stonepitts in Kent. He became Clerk of...