Delarivier Manley

01 January 1670 - 11 July 1724

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, 1998.

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Education	Elizabeth Boyd	EB says nothing about how she learned the things she knew—an acquaintance with English literature, some history, and at least a smattering of French and Latin—but she may well have been largely self-taught. She often...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Boyd	EB offers original, discriminating praise for women's writing: Susanna Centlivre (her inspiration, she says), Eliza Haywood (though she regrets her exposure of women's faults), Aphra Behn , and Delarivier Manley , whom she calls the...
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...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Boyd	Heather Harper acknowledges that this is a conservative text, in that it lacks the drive of Delarivier Manley , for instance, to lambast the vices of high life. She notes, however, that Boyd celebrates secularised...
Reception	Aphra Behn	An anonymous Young Lady (most probably Delarivier Manley ) published a pindaric elegy on AB , along with another by Nathaniel Lee . Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987. 182, 216n176 Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Oxford University Press, 2000. 30-1
Publishing	Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy	This was a translation of her Mémoires de la cour d'Angleterre (1694). No copies have been traced, but Mrs William Henry Arthur published a new translation of the original French in 1912. Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d’Aulnoy in England”. Comparative Literature, Vol. 27 , 1975, pp. 237-53. 251, 253 It...
Intertextuality and Influence	Penelope Aubin	The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda, PA 's only novel told in the first person, takes place partly at Constantinople in Turkey, where Lucinda is sold as a slave after behaving with...
Literary responses	Mary Astell	The Tatler fastens on Astell's age, her virginity, and her assumed incompetence in practical or worldly matters. A further attack followed on 3 September, which linked her name with those of Elstob and Manley
Cultural formation	Sarah Lady Piers	SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...
Friends, Associates	Sarah Lady Piers	SLP was in correspondence with Catharine Trotter from at least 1697 to 1709 (the year after Trotter's marriage). The relationship was warm: when Trotter, now Cockburn, was married and expecting her first child, Piers hoped...
Anthologization	Sarah Lady Piers	SLP was one of the contributors to The Nine Muses, the all-female anthology of elegies on the death of Dryden which was edited by Delarivier Manley , and published in 1700. She expressed some...

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