The Secret history of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians
Subtitle: Containing the true reasons of the necessity of the revolution that lately happen'd in the kingdom of Albigion. By way of appendix to the New Atlantis. In two parts
Published: 1711
Place of publication: Albigion [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Humor
Notes: A satire on Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

First published in 1705; reprinted with a second part in 1711. [-D.N.B. under Manley.] Also reprinted in Oldisworth, William. State tracts. London, 1715. Vol. I. pp. 289-383. French translations were published 1708, 1711 and 1712 with the title: Histoire secrette etc.

Long attributed to Mrs. Mary de la Rivière Manley. More recently attributed to Joseph Browne. Has also been attributed to Henry Sacheverell, without much evidence, and to William Oldisworth. For a full discussion of the authorship of this work, see Downie, J.A. What if Delarivier Manley did not write 'The secret history of Queen Zarah'? in The Library: the transactions of the Bibliographical Society, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2004, seventh series, pp. 247-264.