Marianne Chambers

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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.

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.
1799
MC published by subscription through Dilly her only novel, He Deceives Himself. A Domestic Tale, dedicated to her godfather, Thomas Powell of Bristol.
British Library Catalogue.
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., Susan Garland-Mann, and Camille Garnier. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Marrs, Edwin J.Editor , Cornell University Press, 1975.
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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.

Biography

Birth and Background

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.

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