Provides Delarivier Manley's contribution to the literary and theatrical milieu of the late 17th century. This book includes a epistolary novella, letters; a commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; a comedy, 'The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband', a tragedy, 'The Royal Mischief'; and two commemorative poems.

The works included in this volume constitute Delarivier Manley's early oeuvre, written in the seventeenth century. They comprise one epistolary novella, Letters Written [sic] by Mrs Manley; one commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; one comedy, The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband, one tragedy, The Royal Mischief; and two commemorative poems, 'Melpomeme: The Tragick Muse' and 'Thalia: The Comick Muse'. In the light of new readings of Delarivier Manley's early work, this volume demonstrates her important contribution to the literary and theatrical milieu of the late seventeenth century.