Delariviere MANLEY
Delariviere Manley.
Born between 1667 and 1671 in Jersey.
Died on 24 July 1724 in London.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
Categories: Novels,
Letters,
Theatre,
Poems,
Periodicals,
Pamphlets,
Imitations,
References.
NOVELS
The secret history of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians (1705, spurious).
Subtitle: Being a looking-glass for — — in the kingdom of Albigion; faithfully translated from the Italian copy now lodg’d in the Vatican at Rome, and never before printed in any language. Published anonymously in 1705, in two parts. In the 1711 edition of the French translation, the author of the foreword indicates that some have attributed the novel to Henry Sacheverell, and a third part is added, which does not appear in any English version. The subtitle of the 1711 edition in English is: Containing the true reasons of the necessity of the revolution that lately happened in the kingdom of Albigion, by way of appendix to the New Atlantis (sic); this last mention does not necessarily attribute the present novel to Delariviere Manley. Reprinted in 1715 in State tracts, a collection of works by Joseph Browne, under the title: A secret history, faithfully handed down from a committee of safety to a committee of secrecy, and in 1720 in Miscellanies in prose and verse, which is State tracts with a new title page.
Delariviere Manley never claimed or disclaimed this work. It was only ascribed to her in the 1743 edition, with this mention on the title page: “by the late ingenious Mrs Manley”. This attribution was not repeated in the 1745 edition.
English: 1705, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (“Albigion”);
1711 (“Albigion”);
1715 (London: Sawbridge, etc.; also 1720);
1743 (London: Huggonson);
1745 (London: Wilford).
French: Histoire secrète de la reine Zarah et des Zaraziens, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (anonymous, 1708; see also
1711,
1712 and
1713, with an additional third part).
The New Atalantis (1709).
Full title: Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality, of both sexes; from the New Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean; written originally in Italian. Published by John Morphew and James Woodward, London, in two volumes, the first one in May 1709, and the second one on 20 October 1709. The title of the second volume ends with: written originally in Italian, and translated from the third edition of the French.
English: 1709, vol. 1 (London: Morphew and Woodward);
1709, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Morphew and Woodward);
1720, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Morphew);
1736, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Watson);
1741, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Hodges; released in August 1740).
French: L’Atlantis, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (Hendrik Scheurleer and Jean Rousset de Missy, 1713; see also
1714, vol. 1 and
vol. 2).
Memoirs of Europe (1710).
Full title: Memoirs of Europe, towards of the close of the eighth century; written by Eginardus, secretary and favourite to Charlemagne, and done into English by the translator of the New Atalantis. Published by John Morphew, London, in 1710. Presented from the 1720 edition as the third and fourth volumes of The New Atalantis.
English: 1710, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Morphew);
1711, vol. 1 (London: Morphew; 2nd edition, corrected);
1720, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Morphew);
1736, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Watson);
1741, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Hodges; released in August 1740).
French: L’Atlantis, vol. 3 (Hendrik Scheurleer and Jean Rousset de Missy, 1716; translation of the two volumes of Memoirs of Europe, with large cuts, explained in the translator’s foreword).
The adventures of Rivella (1714).
Full title: The adventures of Rivella, or The history of the author of the Atalantis; with secret memoirs and characters of several considerable persons her contemporaries; deliver’d in a conversation to the young chevalier d’Aumont in Somerset House Garden, by Sir Charles Lovemore; done into English from the French. Published in London in 1714.
English: 1714 (London; facsimile printed in 1972);
1715 (London);
1717 (London: Curll; facsimile printed in 1976);
1725 (London: Curll and Pemberton; released in October 1724).
The power of love (1719).
Subtitle: In seven novels. Collection of novellas, published by John Barber and John Morphew, London, in December 1719, dated 1720.
1. The fair hypocrite.
2. The physician’s stratagem.
3. The wife’s resentment.
4. The husband’s resentment, I.
5. The husband’s resentment, II.
6. The happy fugitives.
7. The perjured beauty.
English: 1720 (London: Barber and Morphew).
LETTERS
Letters written by Mrs. Manley (1696).
Full title: Letters written by Mrs. Manley to which is added a letter from a supposed nun in Portugal to a gentleman in France, in imitation of the nun’s five letters in print, by Colonel Pack. Published by R. B. (Richard Bentley?), London, in 1696. The 1725 edition is titled: A stage-coach journey to Exeter.
English: 1696 (London: R. B.);
1725 (London: Roberts).
The unknown lady’s packet of letters (1707).
Full title: The unknown lady’s packet of letters taken from her by a French privateer in her passage to Holland; suppos’d to be written by several men of quality; brought over from St. Malo’s, by an English officer, at the last exchange of prisoners. First part published by Benjamin Bragg, London, in Madame d’Aulnoy’s Memoirs of the court of England, in January 1707. Second part published by John Morphew and James Woodward, London, in Madame d’Aulnoy’s The history of the earl of Warwick, in September 1707, dated 1708, along with the second edition of the previous volume. Both parts collected, with an additional letter at the end, in Court intrigues, in a collection of original letters, from the island of the New Atalantis; by the author of those memoirs, published by John Morphew and James Woodward, London, in June 1711; unauthorised reissue objected to by Manley (“now ridiculously mangled and very uncorrectly reprinted [...] without the consent or knowledge of the author of the Atalantis”, in The Examiner of 21 June 1711).
English: 1707, part 1 (London: Bragg);
1708, part 1 and
part 2 (London: Morphew and Woodward);
1711 (London: Morphew and Woodward; the pagination of this book is very faulty).
Bath-intrigues (1725).
Subtitle: In four letters to a friend in London. Published by James Roberts, London, in 1725.
English: 1725 (London: Roberts).
THEATRE
The lost lover, or The jealous husband (1696).
Comedy, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, probably in March 1696. Published by Richard Bentley, Francis Saunders, James Knapton and Richard Wellington, London, in 1696.
English: 1696 (London: Bentley, Saunders, Knapton and Wellington).
The royal mischief (1696).
Tragedy, first performed at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, London, in April or May 1696. Published by Richard Bentley, Francis Saunders and James Knapton, London, in 1696.
Almyna, or The Arabian vow (1707).
Tragedy, first performed at the Queen’s Theatre, Haymarket, on 16 December 1707. Also performed on 17 and 18 December 1707 at the same theatre. Published by William Turner and Egbert Sanger, London, in December 1707.
English: 1707 (London: Turner and Sanger).
Lucius, the first Christian king of Britain (1717).
Tragedy, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, on 11 May 1717. Also performed on 13 and 18 May 1717, and 27 April 1720, at the same theatre. Published by John Barber, London, in 1717.
English: 1717 (London: Barber);
1720 (London: Barber).
The court legacy (doubtful, 1733).
Ballad opera, never acted. Published by J. Dormer, London, in 1733. The 1735 edition is titled: The ladies of the palace, or The new-court legacy.
English: 1733 (London: Dormer);
1735 (London: Reynolds).
The duke of Somerset.
Unpublished tragedy.
The double mistress.
Unpublished comedy.
POEMS
To the author of Agnes de Castro (1696).
Commendatory poem included in the first edition of Catharine Trotter’s tragedy Agnes de Castro, published by Henry Rhodes, Richard Parker and Samuel Briscoe, London, in 1696. The play was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, in December 1695 or early January 1696.
English: 1696 (London: Rhodes, Parker and Briscoe).
Melpomene: The tragic muse (1700).
Commemorative poem included in The nine muses, or Poems by nine several ladies upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, esq, published by Richard Basset, London, in 1700.
Thalia: The comic muse (1700).
Commemorative poem included in The nine muses, or Poems by nine several ladies upon the death of the late famous John Dryden, esq, published by Richard Basset, London, in 1700.
An heroic essay upon the enequaled victory obtained by major-general Webb over the count de La Mothe at Wynendale (doubtful, 1709).
Panegyric published by Ann Baldwin, London, in February 1709.
English: 1709 (London: Baldwin).
To J. Moore, esq. of Worcester College, Oxon (1720).
Published in A new miscellany of original poems, translations and imitations, edited by Anthony Hammond, and published by T. Jauncy, London, in 1720.
English: 1720 (London: Jauncy; followed with
To Mrs. Manley, by James Moore Smythe).
To the right honourable the countess of Bristol (1720).
Published in A new miscellany of original poems, translations and imitations, edited by Anthony Hammond, and published by T. Jauncy, London, in 1720.
English: 1720 (London: Jauncy);
1781 (London: Nichols).
PERIODICALS
The Female Tatler, Nos. 1–51 (doubtful, 1709).
Attributed in part to Delariviere Manley or Thomas Baker (c. 1680–1749). Issued three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 8 July 1709 to 31 March 1710, for a total of 115 issues; three of them were numbered 88 and two 94, so the last issue is No. 112. The first 18 issues were printed by Benjamin Bragg, London, and the remaining 97 issues by Ann Baldwin, London. From No. 19 (19 August 1709) to No. 44 (17 October 1709), a spurious Female Tatler was issued concurrently, printed by Bragg (both editions were accusing each other of being the spurious one, but scholars agree that the Baldwin edition is the continuation of the original Female Tatler). The first 51 issues were signed by “Mrs. Crackenthorpe, a lady that knows everything”, and the later ones (from 4 November 1709) by “a society of ladies”. Despite conflicting opinions in the literature, it is likely that Delariviere Manley edited Bragg 1–18 and Baldwin 19–51, Thomas Baker edited Bragg 19–44, and several other authors, including Bernard Mandeville and Susanna Centlivre, edited Baldwin 52–112.
English: 1709–1710 (London: Bragg, then Baldwin).
The Examiner, No. 7 and Nos. 46–52 (1710–1711).
Full title: The Examiner, or Remarks upon papers and occurrences. Commenced on 3 August 1710. Edited by Jonathan Swift from 2 November 1710 to 1714, with interruptions. Issues 7 (14 September 1710) and 46–52 (14 June to 27 July 1711) were edited by Delariviere Manley.
English: 14 September 1710 (No. 7);
14 June,
21 June,
28 June,
5 July,
12 July,
19 July and
26 July 1711 (Nos. 46–52).
PAMPHLETS
A true narrative of what passed at the examination of the marquis de Guiscard at the Cock-Pit, the 8th of March 1710/11, his stabbing Mr. Harley, and other precedent and subsequent facts, relating to the life of the said Guiscard (1711).
In collaboration with Jonathan Swift. Published by John Morphew, London, in mid-April 1711. Reprinted the same year by Cornelius Carter, Dublin.
English: 1711 (London: Morphew).
The duke of Marlborough’s vindication: in answer to a pamphlet lately published, called “Bouchain, or A dialogue between the Medley and the Examiner” (1711).
Published by John Morphew, London, on 2 October 1711. Response to an anonymous pamphlet, attributed to Francis Hare or Arthur Maynwaring, whose title was actually Bouchain: in a dialogue between the late Medley and Examiner.
A learned comment upon Dr. Hare’s excellent sermon preached before the duke of Marlborough, on the surrender of Bouchain (1711).
Published by John Morphew, London, on 3 October 1711.
English: 1711 (London: Morphew).
A true relation of the several facts and circumstances of the intended riot and tumult on Queen Elizabeth’s birthday (1711).
Published by John Morphew, London, in late November 1711.
English: 1711 (London: Morphew).
The history of John Bull (spurious, 1712).
Five pamphlets attributed to John Arbuthnot. The title pages of the third part, its appendix and the fourth part indicate that they were “published” by the author of the Atalantis, as well as the former parts, but Delariviere Manley was probably not involved. Published by John Morphew, London, in 1712. Reprinted in the same year by James Watson, Edinburgh.
• Law is a bottomless pit, or The history of John Bull.
English: 1712 (London: Morphew).
• John Bull in his senses.
English: 1712 (Edinburgh: Watson).
• John Bull still in his senses.
English: 1712 (Edinburgh: Watson).
• An appendix to John Bull still in his senses.
English: 1712 (Edinburgh: Watson).
• Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician.
English: 1712 (Edinburgh: Watson).
The honour and prerogative of the queen’s majesty vindicated and defended against the unexampled insolence of the author of the Guardian: in a letter from a country Whig to Mr. Steele (doubtful, 1713).
Attributed to Daniel Defoe or Delariviere Manley. Published by John Morphew, London, on 13 August 1713.
English: 1713 (London: Morphew; 2nd edition).
Reasons concerning the immediate demolishing of Dunkirk: being a serious enquiry into the state and condition of that affair (doubtful, 1713).
Attributed to Daniel Defoe or Delariviere Manley. Published by John Morphew, London, in 1713.
English: 1713 (London: Morphew; 2nd edition).
A modest enquiry into the reasons of the joy expressed by a certain set of people, upon the spreading of a report of Her Majesty’s death (doubtful, 1714).
Published by John Morphew, London, on 4 February 1714. Reprinted the same year by Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh, and Edward Waters, Dublin.
English: 1714 (Edinburgh: Freebairn).
The ecclesiastical and political history of Whig-Land of late years, to which are prefixed the characters of a late ecclesiastical historian and of the author of this history, by John Lacy, esq. (doubtful, 1714).
John Lacy’s authorship is disputed. Possible contribution of Delariviere Manley. Published by John Morphew, London, in 1714.
English: 1714 (London: Morphew).
The conduct of His Grace the duke of Ormond in the campaign of 1712 (doubtful, 1715).
Probably not by Delariviere Manley. Published by John Morphew, London, in 1715.
English: 1715 (London: Morphew);
1748 (London: Webb).
French: La conduite du duc d’Ormond pendant la campagne de 1712 en Flandre (anonymous, 1715).
IMITATIONS
Works by other authors referring to the Atalantis in their title.
Atalantis Major (1711).
Attributed to Daniel Defoe.
English: 1711 (London).
The northern Atalantis, or York spy (1713).
By William King (1663–1712). Published by Ann Baldwin, London, in 1713.
English: 1713 (London: Baldwin; 2nd edition);
1720 (London: Curll);
c. 1890 (reprint).
The New Atalantis for the year 1713 (1714).
Published by Edmund Curll, London, on 8 April 1714. Authorship disclaimed by Manley in The Examiner of 12 April 1714: “this book was not writ by the author of the four volumes of the Atalantis published by John Morphew; the author of those volumes having never seen this book, nor knowing anything of the contents, will not be answerable for whatever may be displayed therein.”
The court of Atalantis (1714).
Attributed to John Olmixon or Jodocrus Crull. Published by James Roberts, London, in 1714. The title from the 1717 edition is: Court tales, or A history of the amours of the present nobility.
English: 1714 (London: Roberts);
1717 (London: Roberts);
1720 (London: Curll);
1732 (London).
The German Atalantis (1715).
Published in London in 1715. The second 1715 edition and the 1721 edition are titled: Hannover tales.
English: 1721 (London: Bettesworth and Curll).
The Atalantis reviv’d (1745).
By R. Thompson. Published by Charles Corbett and Thomas Harris, London, in 1745. The 1748 edition is titled: The young ladies and gentlemen’s amorous amusement.
English: 1745, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Corbett and Harris);
1748, vol. 1 and
vol. 2 (London: Wren, Rastin, Owen and Robinson).
Intrigue a-la-mode, or The Covent Garden Atalantis (1767).
Published by J. Ekins, London, in 1767.
The modern Atalantis (1784).
Published by George Kearsley the Elder, London, in 1784.
English: 1784 (London: Kearsley).
REFERENCES
Giles Jacob:
“Mrs. De la Rivier Manley” in The poetical register, vol. 1 (1719).
English: 1719 (London: Curll);
1723 (London: Bettesworth et al.).
Sidney Lee (ed.):
“Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Riviere” in Dictionary of national biography, vol. 36 (1893).
English: 1893 (New York: Macmillan, and London: Smith and Elder).
Patricia Köster:
“Introduction” to The novels of Mary Delariviere Manley, vol. 1 (1971).
English: 1971 (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars’ Facsmile and Reprints).
Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison (ed.):
“Manley, Delarivier” in Oxford dictionary of national biography, vol. 36 (2004).
Iona Italia:
The rise of literary journalism in the eighteenth century (2005).
Rachel Carnell:
A political biography of Delarivier Manley (2008).
Mark Knights:
The devil in disguise (2011).
Created on 25 June 2024. Updated on 28 July 2024.
