Marianne Chambers, who was active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, published a novel and had two lively comedies produced, the first of which had some success.
Milestones
MC, old enough to issue her first book in 1799, was still young enough six years later to mention her youth and inexperience in publishing her next. She was probably born in the 1770s, and certainly by about 1773.
1799 MC published by subscription through
Dilly her only novel,
He Deceives Himself. A Domestic Tale, dedicated to her godfather,
Thomas Powell of
Bristol.
2 March 1811 MC's second five-act play,
Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the
Lyceum in
London with actors from the
Theatre Royal.
Nothing more is known of MC after the year 1811, when her last play was twice staged and also published. She may have died at any time after this.
