biography
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Manley, Delariviere
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often called, incorrectly, Mary
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| female
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| lived:
| (1663–1724)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Jersey, Channel Is. After her first marriage to Sir Roger Manley (d.1687), she was unsuspectingly lured into a bigamous marriage with her cousin, John Manley of Truro, MP, who soon deserted her. She went to England, where she had success with the publication of her letters. In 1696 she wrote plays, and chronicles disguised as fiction, especially the scandalous anti-Whig The New Atalantis (1709). In 1711 she succeeded Swift as editor of The Examiner. She also wrote a fictional ‘biography’, The Adventures of Rivella (1714). |
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