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(MANLEY, Delarivier). Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atlantis an Island in the Mediterranean.
London: Printed for John Morphew… and J. Woodward, 1709. In two volumes. Second edition. 8vo., full cont. calf, raised bands, with more recent leather labels, vi, (2), 246; (12), 272pp. Extremities rubbed with some wear to corners, 2” crack along the upper hinge of volume one, still a near fine set.
Delarivier Manley (1670?-1724) was a playwright, journalist, and writer of political fiction. In her time, Manley was a notorious character known for her scandalous past (a cousin seduced her into a bigamous marriage), her sensational writing (ranging from the aggressively political to the erotic), and her appearance (she was badly scarred from a bout of smallpox in her youth and known for being overweight). Manley should be included when discussing the central political and literary circles of the time: friends with Jonathan Swift as well as his successor as editor of The Examiner, satirised by Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock, and now usually mentioned alongside Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood as “the fair triumvirate of wit.” New Atlantis, the title she is best known for, was published anonymously and claims on its title to have been originally written in Italian. “Later critics read it as pornographic; still later critics co-opted it into the development of the novel; but that is not how its author or its original readers understood it. It is political scandal fiction (what was developed first in France as 'chronique scandaleuse'), with elements both of allegory and of propaganda.” Specifically, it was a pointed anti-Whig satire “crammed with offensive personal attacks on individuals (women as well as men); most though not all of them pertain to the misuse of political or sexual power.” The publication resulted in her arrest, as well as the arrest of the two publishers, and the printer; Swift later supported an application to Lord Peterborough for a reward for her service to the Tory cause in the writing of New Atlantis.
$1,500.00
