Mary Chandler
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Standard Name: Chandler, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Chandler
A Description of Bath, whose chief interest is the way it functions as part of a local tourist economy. Her minor poems show her to have been independent-minded, witty, and trenchant. They include comic narrative, defence of the single life, and an epitaph for herself. She also wrote to write a theological text and a biblical paraphrase, which are not known to survive.
, writing in the earlier eighteenth century, became famous for a single poem, the Timeline
Texts
Chandler, Mary. A Description of Bath. James Leake, 1733.