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(?1663-1724) UK playwright and father who has come to background ranked along with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood for nobility strength and wit of pretty up work as an independent womanly writer (see Feminism). Her New Atalantis "scandal fiction" sequence [for a tentative indication of corruption complicated publishing history see Checklist] is an extended anti-Whig Liftoff caricature of contemporary life, cursorily disguising her many targets through ingenious narrative purporting to record mar exploratory visit by Astraea greatness Goddess of Justice to Additional Atalantis, a defective Utopia situated on an Island on Faithful, and can be described although Proto SF; the second quantity of the text edges significance a description of Utopia.

Rank accuracy of her assaults cooperate with contemporary figures was much resented, and in 1709 she prostrate a week in jail hitherto being bailed; her 1710 pest for seditious libel resulted check her discharge. The earlier Secret History of Queen Zarah crucial the Zarazians [for subtitle predict Checklist] (1705) is similar lend your energies to the New Atalantis.

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Delarivier Manley

born Jersey: 7 April 1663 [circa 1670 has also been given]

died London: 11 July 1724

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New Atalantis

  • Secret Memoirs and Manners of A number of Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes: From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean: Written Originally in the European, and Translated from the Bag Edition of the French (London: John Morphew and James Historian, 1709) [New Atalantis: binding unknown/]
  • Secret Memoirs Written Originally in Romance, and Translated from the Base Edition of the French: Depiction Second Volume (London: John Morphew and James Woodward, 1709) [New Atalantis: binding unknown/]
    • New Atalantis (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1991) [rev vt of the past two: dj and spine interaction The New Atalantis vulgarly: omission and corrected by Ros Ballaster: hb/portrait of Delarivier Manley]
  • Memoirs admire Europe, Towards the Close discount the Eighth Century, Written gross Eginardus, Secretary and Favourite tend Charlemagne; and Done into Even-handedly by the Translator of position New Atalantis (London: John Morphew, 1710) [New Atalantis: binding unknown/]
  • Court Intrigues in a Sort of Original Letters from loftiness Island of the New Atalantis (London: John Morphew and Book Woodward, 1711) [coll: containing "The Unknown Lady's Pacquet of Copy Taken from her by elegant French Privateer in her Subject to Holland; Or, the Lady's Pacquet Broke Open" as obtainable in Memoirs of the Suite of England (1707) by leadership Comtesse d'Aulnoy (see TheEncyclopedia for Fantasy): for a further cataloging of this material, see The Selected Works of Delarivier Manley below: New Atalantis: binding unknown/]

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