Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Delarivier Manley: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Adventures of Rivella

Appendix A: Edmund Curll’s Preface and Key to the Fourth (1725) Edition of Rivella

Appendix B: Excerpts from New Atlantis

Appendix C: Delarivier Manley and Richard Steele

Appendix D: Delarivier Manley and Jonathan Swift

Appendix E: Delarivier Manley and John Barber

Appendix F: Delarivier Manley’s Will

Appendix G: Delarivier Manley and her Female Literary Contemporaries

Appendix H: Delarivier Manley’s Female Literary Precursors

Works Cited/Recommended Reading

About the Author

Katherine Zelinsky currently teaches English at The University of Calgary and has published in the area of eighteenth-century fiction.

Reviews

“The Adventures of Rivella is important not only as fiction, as a proto-novel, but also as veiled autobiography and is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman author’s relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. This edition makes this overlooked early eighteenth-century text widely available; furthermore, Zelinsky’s thorough, judicious editorial apparatus allows the reader to understand the book’s complex and fascinating contexts.” —Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta