Political Biography of Delarivier Manley

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.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Rachel Carnell

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Carnell, Carnell Rachel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138663428
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66342-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature & literary studies, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Biography, Literature and Literary studies