Marianne Chambers

05 November 1778 - 31 March 1811

MC , 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.

BirthName: Mary Anne Chambers
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Marianne Chambers. 9 Mar. 2016.
Self-constructed: Marianne

Milestones

5 November 1778

Mary Anne Chambers (who later called herself Marianne) was baptised at the church of Saint Augustine the Less in Bristol. She was presumably born shortly before this; her parents had been married a little over a year.

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Marianne Chambers. 9 Mar. 2016.

1799

MC published by subscription through Dilly her only novel, He Deceives Himself. A Domestic Tale, dedicated to her godfather, Thomas Powell of Bristol.

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2 March 1811

MC 's second five-act play, Ourselves, A Comedy, opened at the Lyceum in London with actors from the Theatre Royal .

Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.

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Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Jr, Cornell University Press, 1975, 3 vols.

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31 March 1811

MC was buried in the church of her baptism, Saint Augustine the Less in Bristol. She must have died just before this date, less than a month after her second play opened in London.

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Marianne Chambers. 9 Mar. 2016.

Biography

Birth and Background

5 November 1778

Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Marianne Chambers. 9 Mar. 2016.