Background
Marriage was born in Stratford, Essex, into the Quaker family of James Haworth Marriage (1839–1913), a confectionery maker, and his wife, Mary, née Brookfield (1835–1899).
Marriage was born in Stratford, Essex, into the Quaker family of James Haworth Marriage (1839–1913), a confectionery maker, and his wife, Mary, née Brookfield (1835–1899).
She also translated under the male pseudonym James Waring. On leaving she went to work as an invoice clerk, but she was already reading widely in English and French and doing some writing. Marriage met the English journalist Edmund Garrett (1865–1907) while they were both patients at a Suffolk sanatorium in 1901, he with tuberculosis, she with neurasthenia.
Marriage returned to the Home Counties after Garrett"s death.
In the 1920s she was living in Notting Hill. In the early 1930s she moved to Malvern, Worcestershire, where she died.
A. R. M. She was related by marriage to Millicent Fawcett and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and showed interest in the women"s suffrage movement. She did some work for the suffragist newspaper Common Cause.