Manley, Mary de la Riviere
- Manley, Mary de la Riviere
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▪ British author
born , April 7, 1663, Jersey, Channel Islands
died July 11, 1724, London
British writer who achieved notoriety through presenting political scandal in the form of romance. Her Secret Memoirs . . . of Several Persons of Quality (1709) was a chronicle seeking to expose the private vices of Whig ministers. After its publication she was arrested for libel but escaped punishment.
Her cousin John Manley married her bigamously in about 1688. In 1711 she succeeded Jonathan Swift as editor of The Examiner and in 1714 wrote her “fictitious autobiography,” The Adventures of Rivella. . . .
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