A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

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;

AUTORE

Rachel Carnell

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781138663428
• Collana: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.00 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 320