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== Books ==
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[[Category:Regency Romance Authors]]
* [[School For Miss Manners|''School for Miss Manners'']]
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[[Category:Historical Romance Authors]]
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[[Category:1979 Debut]]
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[[Category:RITA Award Finalists]]
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[[Category:British Authors]]
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[[Category:Candlelight Romance Authors]]
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[[Category:Cotillion Regency Romance Authors]]
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[[Category:Coventry Authors]]
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[[Category:Signet Regency Romance]]
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[[Category:1936 Births]]
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[[Category:Deceased Authors]]
  
== Six Sisters Series ==
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'''Marion''' Chesney was born on June 10, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
*''[[Minerva]]'' - 1984 (Fawcett)
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Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
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Marion Chesney Gibbons died in December 2019.
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==On the Web==
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* Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Chesney]
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==See Also==
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* [[M.C. Beaton]]
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* [[Ann Fairfax]]
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* [[Jennie Tremaine]]
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* [[Helen Crampton]]
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* [[Charlotte Ward]]
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* [[Sarah Chester]]
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==Books==
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== Series/Related Titles ==
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== Six Sisters ==
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*''[[Minerva]]'' - 1983 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Taming of Annabelle]]'' - 1983 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Taming of Annabelle]]'' - 1983 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[Deirdre and Desire]]'' - 1984 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[Deirdre and Desire]]'' - 1984 (Fawcett)
*''[[Daphne]]'' - 1984 (Fawcett)
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*''[[Daphne]]'' - 1985 (Fawcett)
*''[[Diana the Huntress]]'' - 1985 (Fawcett)
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*''[[Diana the Huntress]]'' - 1986 (Fawcett)
*''[[Frederica in Fashion]]'' - 1985 (Fawcett)
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*''[[Frederica in Fashion]]'' - 1986 (Fawcett)
  
== House for a Season Series ==
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== House for a Season ==
*''[[The Miser Of Mayfair]]'' - 1986 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[The Miser Of Mayfair]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
*''[[Plain Jane]]'' - 1986 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Plain Jane]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[The Wicked Godmother]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[The Wicked Godmother]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Rake's Progress]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Rake's Progress]]'' - 1987 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Rainbird's Revenge]]'' - 1988 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Rainbird's Revenge]]'' - 1988 (St. Martin's)
  
== The School for Manners Series ==
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== School for Manners ==
*''[[Refining Felicity]]'' - 1989 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Refining Felicity]]'' - 1988 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Perfecting Fiona]]'' - 1989 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Perfecting Fiona]]'' - 1989 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Enlightening Delilah]]'' - 1989 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Enlightening Delilah]]'' - 1989 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Marrying Harriet]]'' - 1990 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Marrying Harriet]]'' - 1990 (St. Martin's)
  
== The Traveling Matchmaker Series ==
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== Traveling Matchmaker ==
 
*''[[Emily Goes to Exeter]]'' - 1990 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Emily Goes to Exeter]]'' - 1990 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Belinda Goes to Bath]]'' - 1991 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Belinda Goes to Bath]]'' - 1991 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Yvonne Goes to York]]'' - 1992 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Yvonne Goes to York]]'' - 1992 (St. Martin's)
  
== The Poor Relation Series ==
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== Poor Relation ==
 
*''[[Lady Fortescue Steps Out]]'' - 1993 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Lady Fortescue Steps Out]]'' - 1993 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Miss Tonks Turns to Crime]]'' - 1993 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Miss Tonks Turns to Crime]]'' - 1993 (St. Martin's)
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*''[[Back in Society]]'' - 1994 (St. Martin's)
 
*''[[Back in Society]]'' - 1994 (St. Martin's)
  
== Daughters of Mannerling Series ==
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== Daughters of Mannerling ==
 
*''[[The Banishment]]'' - 1995 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Banishment]]'' - 1995 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Intrigue]]'' - 1995 (Ivy)
 
*''[[The Intrigue]]'' - 1995 (Ivy)
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*''[[The Romance]]'' - 1997 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Romance]]'' - 1997 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Homecoming]]'' - 1997 (Fawcett)
 
*''[[The Homecoming]]'' - 1997 (Fawcett)
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==Recognitions==
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*1993  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Regency Romance, ''[[Lady Fortescue Steps Out]]''

Latest revision as of 00:03, 27 November 2024


Marion Chesney was born on June 10, 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.

Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.

Marion Chesney Gibbons died in December 2019.

On the Web

See Also

Books

Series/Related Titles

Six Sisters

House for a Season

School for Manners

Traveling Matchmaker

Poor Relation

Daughters of Mannerling

Recognitions