Description
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.
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;
