Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Delarivier Manley
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Standard Name: Manley, Delarivier
Birth Name: Delarivier Manley
Married Name: Delarivier Manley
Nickname: Dela
Indexed Name: Mary de la Riviere Manley
Indexed Name: Mary Delarivier Manley
Pseudonym: Melpomene
Pseudonym: Thalia
Pseudonym: Delia
Pseudonym: The Translator of the New Atalantis
Pseudonym: Rivella
Used Form: Delarivière Manley
DM
was a pioneer in many fields: poetry, drama, journalism, and fiction, and the genres with which the fiction of her period interlocked: letters, soft pornography, satire, secret history, romance autobiography, and political polemic. She was proud of being first in the field on the Tory side during the pamphlet wars of Queen Anne's reign. As critic Paula McDowell
remarks, her writing identity was shaped by the new concept of print culture as an industry, an employer of labour.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
After an immediate burial at St Anne's Church, Soho, Dryden was given a Westminster Abbey funeral and buried in the grave of Chaucer
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Poets lamenting his death included the all-female contributors to The...
Textual Production
Anne Finch
AF
appeared several times in print, with poems in both volumes of Delarivier Manley
's New Atalantis and in Poetical Miscellanies published by Jacob Tonson
.
McGovern, Barbara. Anne Finch and Her Poetry: A Critical Biography. University of Georgia Press.
120-1, 93
Publishing
Martha Fowke
MF
may have written The Plain Dealer's elegy on Manley
, published in no. 53 on 21 September 1724 and reprinted in the collected edition in 1730.
Fowke, Martha. “Introduction”. Clio, edited by Phyllis J. Guskin, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, pp. 15-50.
EF
owned more than a hundred books: well known religious texts, a famous French romance (Gauthier de la Calprenède
's Cassandra, English translation 1652), the publications of her sister, Frances Norton
and her...
Anthologization
Sarah Fyge
Delarivier Manley
printed some of SF
's letters in The Lady's Pacquet of Letters.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Family and Intimate relationships
Sarah Fyge
SF
and Egerton had no children. Their bad relations were evidently notorious, since Manley
represented the pair in violent and grotesque physical combat.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
205
Friends, Associates
Sarah Fyge
Manley
had been a friend of SF
, but they came to dislike each other by 1704-5.
Textual Production
Sarah Fyge
In the former (the all-female collection edited by Manley
) SF
probably wrote as three of the nine muses: Erato, Euterpe, and Terpsichore. If so she used three different sets of initials: Mrs. S. F...
Reception
Sarah Gardner
George Colman
pursued his enmity against SG
for almost twenty years, twice staging at the Haymarket Theatre
farces in mockery of women dramatists which aim at her, and for each of which he was able...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Gunning
It was known that Lorne had been in the running before Blandford, who was financially and socially a better catch. Gossips speculated. Love-letters from Blandford, and a letter from the Duke of Marlborough welcoming EG
Textual Production
Eliza Haywood
Another work of 1724, the scandal-memoir Bath-Intrigues: in Four Letters to a Friend in London, appeared anonymously and was at first ascribed to Delarivier Manley
.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
216-17
Textual Features
Eliza Haywood
The author deliberately confuses her or his identity: a fictional correspondent cites contradictory opinions as to whether it is EH
, or some other daughter of Behn
or Manley
, or a man dissimulating his...
Intertextuality and Influence
Eliza Haywood
EH
's socio-political allegory stands virtually alone in her oeuvre in its attempt to reproduce the political instrumentality of Manley
's scandal fiction during the reign of Anne.
Ballaster, Ros. Seductive Forms. Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740. Clarendon Press.
EH
's preface defends the moral effects of realistic fiction, of imperfect heroes and heroines drawn with faults as well as virtues, without poetical descriptions or rhapsodic dialogue.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
517
Her publisher specifically commissioned her to...
Fictionalization
Eliza Haywood
EH
's reputation during her lifetime and immediately afterwards (bolstered by Pope's image of her in the Dunciad) was of the quintessential practitioner of the novel, seen as low-grade entertainment both intellectually and morally...
Timeline
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Texts
Manley, Delarivier. The Novels of Mary Delarivière Manley. Editor Köster, Patricia, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1971, http://HSS.
Manley, Delarivier. The Power of Love. John Barber and John Morphew, 1720.
Manley, Delarivier. The Royal Mischief. R. Bentley, F. Saunders, and J. Knapton, 1696.
Manley, Delarivier. The Secret History of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians. 1705.
