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.
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
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...
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.
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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...
Leisure and Society
Elizabeth Freke
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...
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.
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
death
John Dryden
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...
Publishing
Mary Davys
Alexander Pope
is listed first among non-aristocratic subscribers; others include Soame Jenyns
, Mrs Duncombe (probably mother of the later writer Susanna Duncombe), and John Barber (partner of the late Delarivier Manley
). The Bodleian Library
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...
Literary responses
Sarah Chapone
SC
's friend and printer Richardson
saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by...
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.
