Mary Chamberlain was born and raised in London. She has lived and worked in England and the Caribbean, and is Emeritus Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. Her book FENWOMEN was the first to be published by the feminist Virago Press in 1975 and was one of the inspirations for Caryl Churchill’s award-winning play "Fen." She has written many books on subjects including women’s history, oral history and Caribbean history. She is a graduate of the acclaimed creative writing master’s degree program at Royal Holloway, University of London, and now lives in London with her husband, the political scientist Stein Ringen.

Books by Mary Chamberlain

The Dressmaker's War

by Mary Chamberlain - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military

THE DRESSMAKER'S WAR is the story of Ada Vaughan, a brilliant English seamstress, taken prisoner in Germany during World War II. Stanislaus von Lieben, a Hungarian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. But when war breaks out and Stanislaus vanishes, Ada is abandoned and alone, trapped on an increasingly dangerous continent.