Delarivier Manley

Delarivier Manley

Delarivier (sometimes spelt Delariviere, Delarivière or de la Rivière) Manley (1663 or c. 1670–1724) was an English author, playwright, and political pamphleteer. (Some outdated sources list her first name as Mary, but recent scholarship has demonstrated that this was in error; that was the name of one of her sisters, and she always referred to herself as Delarivier or Delia.)

Manley is sometimes referred to (with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood) as one of "The fair triumvirate of wit"—a later attribution.