About Mary Chamberlain
Mary Chamberlain is a published novelist and a historian of Britain and the Caribbean. She was born in London and studied politics and international relations at the University of Edinburgh and then the London School of Economics. She has worked with oral history and life story methods in 1995, publishing quite a lot on women’s and Caribbean history. Mary is an Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is a Trustee of the National Life Story Collection in the National Sound Archive of the British Library. She is known for writing the novel The Dressmaker of Dachau, which came out under that title in 2015 in the United Kingdom. It was an international best seller and sold to nineteen countries. It was relea
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
4 books in seriesPublication Order
- The Mighty Jester(2014)
- The Dressmaker's War / The Dressmaker of Dachau(2015)
- The Hidden(2019)
- The Forgotten(2021)
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
8 books in seriesPublication Order
- Fenwomen(1977)
- Writing Lives: Conversations Between Women Writers(1988)
- Growing Up in Lambeth(1989)
- Narratives of Exile and Return(1997)
- Caribbean Migration: Globalized Identities(1998)
- Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience(2006)
- Old Wives' Tales: The History of Remedies, Charms and Spells(2010)
- Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean: Barbados, 1937-66(2010)
Publication Order of Anthologies
3 books in seriesPublication Order
- Handbook of Oral History(2006)
- Thinking About Oral History: Theories and Applications(2007)
- Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity(2008)
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