John Manley

Standard Name: Manley, John

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Family and Intimate relationships Delarivier Manley
After a pregnancy in which she was perpetually ill,
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
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DM bore a son, who ranked as illegitimate, because of her husband 's previous, still valid marriage.
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
70
Family and Intimate relationships Delarivier Manley
DM left her husband , the bigamist, possibly while pregnant by him for the second time.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
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Ballaster, Ros. “Early Women Writers: Lives and Times. Delarivier Manley (c. 1663-1724)”. The Female Spectator (1995-), Vol.
5
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2001, pp. 2-5.
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Family and Intimate relationships Delarivier Manley
DM 's first cousin John Manley seduced her and persuaded her to marry him. In fact he had a wife living (as she may possibly have known), which meant that she was a fallen woman...
Textual Features Eliza Haywood
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, 2003.
517
Her publisher specifically commissioned her to...

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