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.
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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Later editions increase the number of prefatory tributes. The sixth (a handsome publication with a two-colour title page) places first a poem of compliment by the young James Sterling . Sterling presents EH as a...
Textual Production Susanna Centlivre
SC contributed an elegy to The Nine Muses, the volume which Delarivier Manley edited on the death of John Dryden .
Bowyer, John Wilson. The Celebrated Mrs Centlivre. Duke University Press.
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Textual Production Mary Pix
MP contributed to The Nine Muses, edited by Delarivier Manley in 1700, a volume of elegies by women on the lately-dead John Dryden .
Backscheider, Paula R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 80. Gale Research.
174
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.
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Textual Production Sarah Chapone
SC had an important role in George Ballard 's pioneering work of women's history and women's biography. She introduced him to an even more important influence, Elizabeth Elstob ; she helped in his research; and...
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
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...
Textual Production Catharine Trotter
It was published by 30 January 1696, as written by a Young Lady, with a dedication to Lord Dorset and a commendatory poem by Delarivier Manley which described CT as the heir to both...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
She dedicated it to her patron Lady Hertford . The British Library copy is 12604 ccc. 7. Harvard University holds the only known copy of an undated set of subscription proposals, which is headed Any...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Brereton
The book opens, like other posthumous collections, with a biographical memoir, in this case by JB 's daughter Charlotte, who reinforces the poet's own positioning of herself as Welsh, female, and modest. Envisaging potential hostility...

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