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, 1998.
243, 220
Mythological frontispiece to the "New Atlantis", showing three female figures. Astrea, goddess of justice, sits on a cloud holding her scales and sword, bare-breasted Truth deploys her trumpet in mid air, and Virtue reclines on earth in the guise of the Duchess of Ormonde. An inscription invokes "Sacred Truth" and the reforming power of satire.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
names Catharine Trotter
  • BirthName: Catharine
    The spelling Catherine is also used.
    Trotter
  • Nicknames: Calista, Daphne,
    Delarivier Manley used both these names for CT (the first one after one of her own heroines).
    Sappho Ecossaise
    This name was bestowed...
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
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, 1997, pp. 15-50.
34
It has been ascribed to Haywood
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...
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...
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.
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Residence Iris Tree
IT 's family moved to Walpole House in Chiswick Mall. Charles II 's mistress Barbara, Lady Castlemaine (patron of Delarivier Manley ) had lived in this house for some years before her death in...
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 Features Robert Southey
Against the trend of the times, RS aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste...
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 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...
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 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...
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, 1989.
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