Note 92b — JOURNAL TO STELLA (continued 2)

Mrs. De la Riviere Manley, daughter of Sir Roger Manley, and cousin of John Manley, M.P., and Isaac Manley (see pp. 7, 24), wrote poems and plays, but is best known for her Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of both sexes. From the New Atalantis, 1709, a book abounding in scandalous references to her contemporaries. She was arrested in October, but was discharged in Feb. 1710. In May 1710 she brought out a continuation of the New Atalantis, called Memoirs of Europe towards the Close of the Eighth Century. In June 1711 she became editress of the Tory Examiner, and wrote political pamphlets with Swift’s assistance. Afterwards she lived with Alderman Barber, the printer, at whose office she died in 1724. In her will she mentioned her “much honoured friend, the Dean of St. Patrick, Dr. Swift.”