Rachel Carnell

A Political Biography of Delarivier Manley

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781851968572
• ISBN-10: 1851968571
• Artikelnr.: 31707066

Autorenporträt

Rachel Carnell

Inhaltsangabe

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