Background
Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire, she was the eldest daughter of Henry Chandler, a dissenting minister, later at Bath, Somerset. Her mother was a Mission Bridgman of Marlborough, and Samuel Chandler was one of her brothers.
Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire, she was the eldest daughter of Henry Chandler, a dissenting minister, later at Bath, Somerset. Her mother was a Mission Bridgman of Marlborough, and Samuel Chandler was one of her brothers.
George Crabb writes that she left several poems, ‘the most esteemed of which was her “Bath”’. In her youth her spine became crooked, and her health suffered. But she set up a shop in Bath about 1705, when not yet out of her teens, and wrote rhyming riddles and poems to friends.
The neighbouring gentry had her to visit them, among them Mistress
Boteler, Mistress Moor, Lady Russell, and the Duchess of Somerset. She died on 11 September 1745.