A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley / Edition 1

by Rachel Carnell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851968572
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/26/2008
Series:	Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies , #3
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table 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;