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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Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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	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. 174
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, 1952. 31-3
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	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	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, 1997. 34
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	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, 2003. 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, 1992. 120-1, 93
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, 1988. 414-15 The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 1: 461
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...

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