author
Esther Chamberlain
d. 1908
An early-20th-century American novelist, she wrote lively, plot-driven fiction with her sister Lucia Chamberlain. Their best-known books include Mrs. Essington and The Coast of Chance, published shortly before her death in 1908.
2 Audiobooks
Mrs. Essington: The Romance of a House-party
by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain
The Coast of Chance
by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain
About the author
Born around 1880, Esther Chamberlain was an American writer best remembered for the novels she created with her sister, Lucia Chamberlain. The two collaborated on Mrs. Essington: The Romance of a House-Party in 1905 and The Coast of Chance in 1908, stories that mix society settings, romance, and mystery in an easy, engaging way.
Surviving reference records about her are brief, and much of her life remains hard to trace in detail. Even so, her work shows a clear gift for brisk storytelling and for the kind of turn-of-the-century fiction that moved quickly between drawing rooms, secrets, and suspense.
Because she died in 1908, her career was short. That makes the novels she left behind especially interesting: they offer a glimpse of a promising writer whose voice survives mainly through the books she published with her sister.