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An early 20th-century novelist whose surviving books blend society settings with mystery and romance, she is best known today through the public-domain novels she wrote with Lucia Chamberlain.

by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain

by Esther Chamberlain, Lucia Chamberlain
Very little biographical information about Esther Chamberlain is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. Public-domain library records show that she was an American writer who died in 1908.
Project Gutenberg and related catalog records credit her as the co-author, with Lucia Chamberlain, of The Coast of Chance and Mrs. Essington: The Romance of a House-party. Those novels suggest a taste for polished social settings, intrigue, and romantic suspense.
Because detailed historical records are scarce online, much of her life remains hard to trace with confidence. What can be said clearly is that her work has lasted long enough to be preserved in major public-domain archives, where new readers can still discover it.