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MANLEY, MARY DE LA RIVIERE (c. 1663-1724)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 586 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANLEY, MARY DE LA RIVIERE (c. 1663-1724) , English writer, daughter of Sir Roger Manley,
governor
  of the Channel Islands, was born on the 7th of April 1663 in
Jersey
 . She wrote her own
biography
  under the title of The Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of the Atalantis by " Sir Charles Lovemore " (1714). According to her own account she was left an orphan at the age of sixteen, and beguiled into a mock
marriage
  with a kinsman who deserted her basely three years afterwards. She was patronized for a short time by the duchess of
Cleveland
 , and wrote an unsuccessful comedy, The Lost Lover (1696); in freedom of speech she equalled the most licentious writers of comedy in that generation. Her tragedy, The Royal Mischief (1696) was more successful. From 1696 Mrs Manley was a favourite member of witty and fashionable society. In 1705 appeared The
Secret
  History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians, a
satire
  on Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, in the guise of romance. This was probably by Mrs Manley, who, four years later, achieved her principal
triumph
  as a writer by her
Secret
  Memoirs . . . . of Several Persons of Quality (1709), a scandalous chronicle " from the New Atalantis, an
island
  in the Mediterranean." She was arrested in the autumn of 1709 as the author of a libellous publication, but was discharged by the court of queen's bench on the 13th of February 1710. Mrs Manley sought in this scandalous narrative to expose the private vices of the ministers whom Swift, Bolingbroke and Harley combined to drive from office. During the keen political campaign in 1711 she wrote several pamphlets, and many numbers of the Examiner, criticizing persons and policy with equal vivacity. Later were published her tragedy Lucius (1717); The Power of Love, in Seven Novels (1720), and A Stage Coach Journey to
Exeter
  (1725).


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