Chamberlain, Lucia

Lucia Chamberlain is an English-language author about whom little is publicly known; her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly documented. Three of her works are known to survive: Mrs. Essington: The Romance of a House-party, The Coast of Chance, and The Other Side of the Door. Judging from their titles and subjects, her novels revolve around country-house social life, emotional entanglements, and plots with an element of suspense. She is skilled at developing relationships within closed or semi-closed social settings and at using chance events to turn the story, reflecting the elegance and narrative pacing common to early twentieth-century popular English fiction. Although scholarly study of her and her work remains limited, these three novels offer useful examples for observing the style of romance and light suspense writing of that period.