Manley, Mary de la Riviere (1663–1724)

English writer. She published several scurrilous works but is best remembered for the Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of both Sexes from the New Atlantis (usually known as The New Atlantis) 1709–10, in which she slandered many well-known people. She also wrote several plays, two of which, The Lost Lover and The Royal Mischief, were produced 1696.

She was born in Jersey, led an irregular life, and was bigamously married to her cousin.