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.
243, 220

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 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 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 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...
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 Mary Pix
MP contributed commendatory verses to Delarivier Manley on her The Royal Mischief.
Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago.
414-15
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Textual Production Eliza Haywood
Aaron Hill 's Plain Dealer number 53 printed an admiring elegy on the lately-dead Manley whose author was probably either EH or Martha Fowke Sansom .
Fowke, Martha. Clio. Editor Guskin, Phyllis J., University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
34
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.
31-3
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 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 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...
Textual Features Clara Reeve
CR demonstrates the widest possible reading: from Homer , Virgil and Horace (all revered) and Juvenal and Persius (used to prove that not all classical authors are admirable) through the heroic romances like those of...
Textual Features Regina Maria Roche
London Tales; or, Reflective Portraits includes a story called The Vacant Novel Reader, whose protagonist, Evelina, is so addicted to novels that her father fears she will never be happy among human beings as...

Timeline

About 1349-1351: Giovanni Boccaccio worked at his cycle of...

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About 1349-1351

Giovanni Boccaccio worked at his cycle of tales entitled (from the fact that the stories are told over the course of ten days) the Decameron. It was first translated into English in 1620.

1669: G. J. Guilleragues published, anonymously,...

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1669

G. J. Guilleragues published, anonymously, Lettres portugaises (sometimes called Letters of a Portuguese Nun).

1705-14: Robert Harley worked to establish a nationwide...

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1705-14

Robert Harley worked to establish a nationwide system of government intelligence and propaganda.

2 April 1705: Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling...

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2 April 1705

Bernard Mandeville published The Grumbling Hive (later expanded as The Fable of the Bees).

8 July 1709-31 March 1710: The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared,...

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8 July 1709-31 March 1710

The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared, an explicitly woman-centred riposte to the condescending or gender-prejudiced element in Richard Steele 's still-new Tatler.

3 August 1710: The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and...

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3 August 1710

The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences was launched by Jonathan Swift with the express intention of examining and correcting false statements from other periodicals; it ran until 1716

19 May 1720: A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond,...

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19 May 1720

A New Miscellany, edited by Anthony Hammond , included work by Pope , Prior , William Bond , George Sewell , Susanna Centlivre , Delarivier Manley , Eliza Haywood , Martha Fowke , and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu .

19 September 1735: A proposal was published for a series or...

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19 September 1735

A proposal was published for a series or periodical to be entitled The Weekly Novelist, a Collection of the Best Novels.

16 October 1750-April 1753: Christopher Smart and John Newbery, under...

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16 October 1750-April 1753

Christopher Smart and John Newbery , under the persona of Mary Midnight, issued a periodical entitled The Midwife; or, Old Woman's Magazine; they acknowledge the influence of Delarivier Manley .

By 1761: Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or,...

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By 1761

Harris's List of Covent-garden Ladies: Or, New Atlantis, a directory of prostitutes, was being printed annually under this title.

1814: John Colin Dunlop published The History of...

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1814

John Colin Dunlop published The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age.

Texts

Manley, Delarivier. A Learned Comment upon Dr. Hare’s Excellent Sermon. John Morphew, 1711.
Manley, Delarivier. A Modest Enquiry into the Reasons of the Joy Expressed. John Morphew, 1714.
Manley, Delarivier. A True Narrative of What Pass’d at the Examination of the Marquis de Guiscard. Editor Swift, Jonathan, John Morphew, 1711.
Manley, Delarivier. A True Relation of the Several Facts and Circumstances of the Intended Riot and Tumult on Queen Elizabeth’s Birth-day. John Morphew, 1711.
Manley, Delarivier. Almyna. William Turner and Egbert Sanger, 1707.
Manley, Delarivier. Court Intrigues. J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1711.
Manley, Delarivier. “Editorial Materials”. A Woman of No Character: An Autobiography of Mrs Manley, edited by Fidelis Morgan, Faber, 1986, p. various pages.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. The Novels of Mary Delarivière Manley, edited by Patricia Köster, Scholars’ Facsimilies and Reprints, 1971, p. v - xxviii.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, 1991, p. v - xxviii.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. The Adventures of Rivella, edited by Katherine Zelinsky, Broadview, 1999, pp. 9-38.
Manley, Delarivier. Letters Written by Mrs. Manley. R. B., 1696.
Manley, Delarivier. Lucius. Printed for John Barber; sold by Benjamin Tooke, Henry Clements, and John Walthoe, Junior, 1717.
Manley, Delarivier. Memoirs of Europe. John Morphew, 1710.
Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d’, and Delarivier Manley. Memoirs of the Court of England. B. Bragg, 1707.
Manley, Delarivier. New Atalantis. J. Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709.
Manley, Delarivier. New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Pickering and Chatto, 1991.
Manley, Delarivier. The Adventures of Rivella. 1714.
Manley, Delarivier. The Adventures of Rivella. Editor Zelinsky, Katherine, Broadview, 1999.
Manley, Delarivier. The Duke of M——h’s Vindication. 1711.
Manley, Delarivier, editor. The Examiner. John Morphew.
Manley, Delarivier. The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen’s Majesty Vindicated. John Morphew, 1713.
Manley, Delarivier, and Marie-Catherine d’ Aulnoy. “The Lady’s Pacquet of Letters”. Memoirs of the Court of England, B. Bragg, 1707.
Manley, Delarivier. The Lost Lover. R. Bentley, F. Saunders, J. Knapton, and R. Wellington, 1696.
Manley, Delarivier. The New Atalantis. Editor Ballaster, Ros, Penguin, 1992.
Manley, Delarivier, editor. The Nine Muses. Richard Basset, 1700.