Manley, Delarivier, -1724

LC control no.	n 83053245
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR3545.M8
Personal name heading	Manley, Delarivier, -1724 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Manley, Mrs., -1724 Manly, Mrs., -1724 Manley, Delia, -1724 Manley, Delariviere, -1724 Manley, De La Rivière, -1724 Atalia, -1724 Author of The new Atalantis, -1724 New Atalantis, Author of the, -1724 Country Whig, -1724 Eginardus, -1724 Eginhardus, Abbot of Seligenstadt, -1724 Manley, Mrs. (Mary de la Rivière), 1663-1724 Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724
Associated country	Great Britain
Associated place	Jersey Guernsey
Death date	1724-07-11
Profession or occupation	Authors Journalists Satirists
Special note	Her forename has previously been confused with that of her sister Mary but is actually Delarivier Year of birth uncertain: various sources give 1663, between 1667 and 1672, circa 1668, circa 1670, 1672
Found in	DNB (Manley, Mrs. Mary de la Rivière; 1663-1724) Encyc. Brit., c1978 (Manley, Mary de la Riviere; b. Apr. 7, 1663; d. July 11, 1724) Webster's biog. dict., c1980 (Manley, Mary de la Rivière; 1663?-1724) LC data base, 9-29-83 (hdg.: Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724; usage: Mrs. Manley; Mary de la Rivière Manley; variant: Mary Delarivière Manley) Her Lucius..., 1989: t.p. (Delariviere Manley) Her New Atalantis, 1992: CIP t.p. (Delarivier Manley) InU/3 cent. drama file (usage: Author of The new Atalantis; Eginardus; Country Whig; Atalia; Eginhardus, abbot of Seligenstadt; Mrs. Manly) New perspectives on Delarivier Manley and eighteenth century literature, 2016: CIP t.p. (Delarivier Manley) chapter one ("daughter of Sir Roger Manley (c. 1621-87) and Marie-Catherine (c. 1643-75). . . . Her mother was a French-speaking noblewoman from the Spanish Netherlands, and died when Manley was quite young . . . . Because there is no surviving record of her birth, we cannot substantiate her birth place or year, but Manley was likely born on the Isle of Jersey, where her father was lieutenant governor, between 1667 and 1672. . . . In The New Atalantis, Manley claims to have been seduced, married, possessed, and ruined by her cousin (and possibly one of her legal guardians), John Manley, about fifteen years her senior, whose wife was alive at the time") Oxford dictionary of national biography, online search 2016-04-26: ("Manley, Delarivier (c.1670-1724), writer, was born in Jersey or possibly at sea between Jersey and Guernsey, the third of the six children of Sir Roger Manley (d. 1687), royalist army officer and historian, and his wife from the Spanish Netherlands, probably named Mary Catherine (d. 1675). . . . Manley's father was appointed lieutenant-governor and commander of his majesty's castles, forts, and forces on Jersey in 1667 under Sir Thomas Morgan; Delarivier appears to have been named after the latter's wife, Delariviere Cholmondoley Morgan. . . . . The principal source for Delarivier's biography is her own account in the 1714 Adventures of Rivella (reissued by the publisher Edmund Curll as Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Manley in 1714 and 1717, and as Mrs. Manley's History of her Own Life and Times in 1725); a brief account is also provided by Manley in her most successful work of scandal fiction, the New Atalantis (1709). . . . Manley's autobiographical writings are . . . not always reliable as sources of fact about her life. . . . Delarivier Manley died . . . on 11 July 1724") Wikipedia, viewed 6 Sept. 2022: under Delarivier Manley (Delarivier "Delia" Manley (sometimes spelt Delariviere, Delarivière, or de la Rivière); born 1663 or c. 1670; died 24 July 1724); an English author, playwright, and political pamphleteer; some outdated sources list her first name as Mary, but recent scholarship has demonstrated that to be an error: Mary was the name of one of her sisters, and she always referred to herself as Delarivier or Delia) Herts Memories website, viewed 14 Sept. 2022: article by Ruth Herman first posted 14 Feb. 2016 (Delarivier Manley, journalist; born (possibly) in 1663 (she was suspiciously cagey about her birth date) on Guernsey; died 1724) <https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/people/delarivier-manley> Find A Grave website, viewed 14 Sept. 2022 (DeLaRiviere Manley; born 1663; died 1724 (aged 60-61); buried at St. Benet's Churchyard, Queenhithe, City of London, Greater London, England; gravestone in central aisle) Email from Dr. Rachel Carnell (Cleveland State University), 14 Sept. 2022: (On Jersey, where Manley is claimed as part of the literary heritage, her birth date is assumed by archivists to be 7 April 1673, presumably following what appears to be G.R. Balleine's mis-transcription of the Sloane Manuscript in his A Biographical Dictionary of Jersey (1948), page 472. The traditional, but mistaken, scholarly assumption (based on a birth record for a 'Mary Manley'), that Delarivier Manley was born in 1663 leads one scholar to conclude that Manley 'consistently reduced her age by ten years, whenever such deception was possible'. However, there is little concrete evidence to suggest that, simply for reasons of personal vanity, Manley regularly attempted to present herself as a full decade younger than she actually was.)