Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Marianne Chambers
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Standard Name: Chambers, Marianne
Birth Name: Mary Anne Chambers
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, 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.
She begins with Wales (whose countryside she praises but whose peasants she fairly sweepingly dismisses).
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Summer Excursions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809, 2 vols.
1: 24-5
Although her title-page does not name it, she returned to Wales on a later journey, and devotes a...
Textual Features
Harriet Corp
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's entire story (which takes place on a coach journey from London to the country) is narrated by a fifty-year-old childless widower. Beresford's book is debated, and raved over by a young officer and...