A Political Biography Of Delarivier Manley

Informationen zum Autor Rachel Carnell Klappentext A Tory pamphleteer, playwright and satirical historian, Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life, including evidence about three illegitimate children by John Tilly, Governor of Fleet Prison. Zusammenfassung A Tory pamphleteer! playwright and satirical historian! Delarivier Manley was regarded by her contemporaries Jonathan Swift and Robert Harley as a key member of the Tory propaganda team. This biography offers details about her life! including evidence about three illegitimate children by John Tilly! Governor of Fleet Prison. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘A Long Untainted Descent’: Her Father’s Daughter?; Chapter 2 Roger Manley: ‘A Scholar in the Midst of a Camp’; Chapter 3 A ‘Liberal Education’: Youth and Early Life in London; Chapter 4 A ‘Female Wit’: 1694–6; Chapter 5 ‘Some More, and Less] Profitable Employ’: 1697–1705; Chapter 6 Not Yet a Propaganda Writer: 1705–8; Chapter 7 ‘[T]hrowing the First Stone’: 1709; Chapter 8 Writing Under a Tory Ministry: 1710–14; Chapter 9 A Celebrated ‘Muse’: 1714–24;

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Carnell, Carnell Rachel
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2008
• EAN: 9781851968572
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-857-2
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies; Eighteenth-Century Political B; Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography, Literature and Literary studies