Marion Chesney
Marion Chesney | |
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 Chesney in 2006 | |
| Born | Marion McGowan Chesney 10 June 1936 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 30 December 2019 (aged 83) Gloucester, England |
| Pen name | Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Marion Chesney, Charlotte Ward, M. C. Beaton, Sarah Chester |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Period | 1979–2019 |
| Genre | Romance, mystery, historical |
| Spouse | (m. 1969; died 2016) |
| Children | Charles Gibbons |
| Website | |
| mcbeaton | |
Marion Gibbons (née Chesney; 10 June 1936 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery novels, whose career as a published author began in 1979. She wrote numerous successful historical romance novels under a form of her maiden name, Marion Chesney, including the "Travelling Matchmaker" and "Daughters of Mannerling" series.
Using the pseudonym M. C. Beaton, she also wrote many popular mystery novels, most notably the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series. Both of these book series have been adapted for TV. She also wrote romance novels under the pseudonyms Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester.
Writing as Marion Chesney, her final endeavour was an Edwardian mystery series featuring Lady Rose Summer, a charming debutante with an independent streak, and Captain Harry Cathcart, an impoverished aristocrat. In an interview, she stated that she ceased writing the Edwardian series as a result of the pressure of writing for the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series.[citation needed]
Biography[]
Marion Chesney was born on 10 June 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland,[1][2] and worked as a buyer of fiction for the Glasgow bookshop John Smith & Son before working at the Scottish Daily Express as a theatre critic, newspaper reporter and editor.[3] She married Express Middle East Correspondent Harry Scott Gibbons in 1969;[3] they had a son, Charles.[4] The couple moved to the Cotswolds when their son was about to go to university, assuming that he would go to Oxford, though in fact he did not.[3]
Chesney had also lived in the USA. In later life she divided her time between a cottage in the Cotswolds and Paris.[5] She died at a hospital in Gloucester, England on 30 December 2019, at the age of 83.[6][7]
Bibliography[]
As Ann Fairfax[]Single novels[]
As Jennie Tremaine[]Single novels[]
As Helen Crampton[]Single novels[]
As Marion Chesney[]Single romances[]
(some of these books were re-published much later as part of other series, often as by "M. C. Beaton") Those Endearing Young Charms[]
Westerby[]
The Six Sisters[]
A House for the Season Series[]
The School for Manners[]
Waverley Women[]
The Travelling Matchmaker[]
Poor relation[]
The Daughters of Mannerling[]
Edwardian Murder Mystery[]
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As Charlotte Ward[]Single novel[]
As M. C. Beaton[]Hamish Macbeth series[]
Hamish Macbeth companion books[]
Agatha Raisin series[]
There are also the short stories Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble (2012), Hell's Bells (2013) and Agatha's First Case (2015), as well as The Agatha Raisin Companion (2010) with introduction by M.C.Beaton. Single novels[]
As Sarah Chester[]Single novel[]
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References[]
- ^ "Marion Chesney Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 10 June 1936 - Google Search". www.google.com.
- ^ Congress, The Library of. "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov.
- ^ a b c Mike Ripley (6 January 2020). "MC Beaton obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ Marion Chesney Official Biography
- ^ M.C. Beaton
- ^ Obituaries, Telegraph (31 December 2019). "MC Beaton, prolific author who created the phlegmatic PC Hamish Macbeth and the amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin – obituary". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Genzlinger, Neil (16 January 2020). "Marion Chesney, a.k.a. Mystery Writer M.C. Beaton, Dies at 83". The New York Times.
- ^ Marion Chesney at Fantastic Fiction
External links[]
- 1936 births
- 2019 deaths
- Writers from Glasgow
- Scottish women novelists
- Scottish romantic fiction writers
- Scottish mystery writers
- 20th-century Scottish novelists
- 21st-century Scottish novelists
- Women romantic fiction writers
- Women mystery writers
- 20th-century Scottish women writers
- 21st-century Scottish women writers