{{Short description|English playwright and novelist (fl. 1799–1812)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use British English|date=November 2018}} '''Marianne Chambers''' ({{fl.}} 1799-1811)<ref name="burroughs">{{cite book |last1=Burroughs |first1=Catherine B. |title=Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers |date=2015 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=9781512801019 |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AFQCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Marianne+Chambers%22+&pg=PA75 |accessdate=4 July 2018}}</ref> was an English playwright.
In 1799 she published a novel, '''''He Deceives Himself: A Domestic Tale''''' in three volumes, which was favourably reviewed in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'': "in its perusal we have received more pleasure and real satisfaction than from any work of its kind published for some years past". The author is described as "Daughter of the late Mr Charles Chambers, many Years in the Honorable East India Company's service, and unfortunately lost in the Winterton Indiaman".<ref name="gents">{{cite journal |title=Review of New Publications |journal=The Gentleman's Magazine |date=1799 |volume=86 |page=787 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfsRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Marianne+Chambers%22+deceives&pg=PA787 |accessdate=4 July 2018}}</ref>
She wrote two comedies, ''The School for Friends'' (first performed at Drury Lane Theatre on 10 December 1805) and ''Ourselves'' (first performed at The Lyceum on 2 March 1811).<ref name="looser">{{cite book |last1=Looser |first1=Devoney |title=The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge UP |isbn=9781107016682 |page=39 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pK_GBgAAQBAJ&q=%22Marianne+Chambers%22++&pg=PA39 |accessdate=4 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="nicoll">{{cite book |last1=Nicoll |first1=Allardyce |title=A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 4: 1800-1850 |date=1955 |publisher=Cambridge UP |page=279 |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.58964/2015.58964.A-History-Of-English-Drama-1660-1900_djvu.txt |accessdate=4 July 2018}}</ref> These were described as "critically acclaimed".<ref name="mann">{{cite book |last1=Mann |first1=Susan Garland |last2=Garnier |first2=Camille |title=Women Playwrights in England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1660-1823 |date=1996 |publisher=Indiana UP |isbn=9780253330871 |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcoUAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Marianne+Chambers%22 |accessdate=4 July 2018}}</ref>
After the production of these two plays she is said to have "disappeared from public notice" and written no more.<ref name=mann />
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==External links== *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5sNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Marianne+Chambers%22&pg=PA1 The School for Friends]'' Full text
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