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The Columbia History of the British NovelHe also published the novels The Man of the World (1773) and Julia de Roubigne (1777), and a play, The Prince of Tunis (1773). Mackenzie edited and contributed to two magazines, the Mirror and the Lounger, and headed the commission that investigated Macpherson's Ossianic poems. Delariviere Manley (1663–1724) Manley led a sensational private life in which she carried on a bigamous marriage with her cousin John Manle y and was a mistress to the warden of the Fleet Prison, John Tilly. She is known for her novels The New Atalantis (1709), a satire on Whigs and public figures, and The Adventures of Rivella (1714), an autobiographical piece. Manley succeeded Jonathan Swift as editor of the Examiner in 1711. Olivia Manning (1908–1980) Manning was reared in Portsmouth and spent an important period of her adult life in Hungary, Greece, Egypt, and Jerusalem. This period provided the basis for her two great war trilogies: The Balkan Trilogy (The Great Fortune, 1960; The Spoilt City, 1962; Friends and Heroes, 1965) and The Levant Trilogy (The Danger Tree, 1977; The Battle Lost and Won, 1978; and The Sum of Things, 1980). -1005- Captain Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) Marryat was both writer and naval captain ...» |
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