Small image of a man handing a book to a women across a counter.

At the Circulating Library

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Anne Catherine Chambers

Author: Anne Catherine Chambers (1829–1898)

Biography: Anne Catherine Cameron was born on 15 January 1829 in Bombay (now Mumbai), the daughter of Sir Charles Harcourt Chambers, the Chief Justice of Bombay. Her father died before her birth and the family returned to Urquhart. In the 1870s, she turned to fiction writing several novels for S. P. C. K. under her initials. She never married and died on 1 March 1898 in Urquhart.

Author Tags:

References: British Census (1881, 1891); William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmariston (1893); Probate

Fiction Titles:

  1. Life Underground, in the Church Tower, the Woods, and the Old Keep.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1873.
  2. Life in the Walls, the Hearth, and the Eaves.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1873.
  3. The Personal Experience of Robin the Bold, with Observations on Divers Characters.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1874.
  4. Away on the Moorland: A Highland Tale.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1875.
  5. The Shepherd of Ardmuir.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1877.
  6. Annals of Hartfell Chase.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1879.
  7. Amid the Greenwood.  1 vol.  London: S. P. C. K., 1881.