Manley made fairly unlikely allegations that CT
had affairs with John Tilly
(she calls them, after fictional characters, Calista and Cleander),
CT
had been called called Calista in The Female Wits; Cleander was...
Family and Intimate relationships
Delarivier Manley
DM
was introduced by Catharine Trotter
to John Tilly
, governor of the Fleet Prison
; he became her first long-term lover, with whom she stayed till December 1702.
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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Textual Production
Delarivier Manley
Scholarship on women's writing, as it advanced by leaps and bounds in the later twentieth century, generally attributed this work to DM
. But the attribution rests largely on a perhaps opportunistic claim made in...