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MANLEY, DELARIVIER "DELIA" (circa 1663-1724)
Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean. London: Printed for John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709.
Octavo, second edition, two parts in one volume with divisional title page; engraved allegorical frontispiece bound opposite general title; bound in full contemporary English calf, decorated in blind compartments; rebacked; ex libris Madam Mary Hyde with her undated 18th century signature inside back board; ex libris Sophie Teltscher with delicately etched bookplate by Alfred Cossmann (1870-1951) on front free endleaf incorporating a woman's laurel-crowned head and armored bust with a Medusa mask at the bottom and surrounded by a twining banner that reads, "wer viel weiss, vergisst viel" with a quote from Emanuel Geibel encircling the composition, "Das Größte ist das Alphabet, denn alle Weisheit steckt drin. Aber nur der erkennt den Sinn der's recht zusammenzusetzen versteht"; armorial bookplate and library stamp of Radcliffe graduate, playwright, lifelong correspondent and cousin of T.S. Eliot, Eleanor Holmes Hinkley (1891-1971); ex libris Joel Rothschild, author of Signals; 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Manley's work is a roman-a-clef critical of the British Whig party. One can also glean details of her own biography amid the scathing action and scandalous plot twists.
Holmes Hinkley wrote an all-female biographical play about Jane Austen, titled Dear Jane, which starred Eva La Gallienne (1899-1991) and her lover Josephine Hutchinson (1903-1998) as the key romantic couple: Jane and Cassandra. La Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre staged their production of Holmes Hinkley's work in November of 1932.
