Mary Chandler

Mary Chandler (1687–1745) mawaƙiya ce 'yar Ingila. George Crabb ya rubuta cewa ta bar waƙoƙi da dama, "waɗanda suka fi daraja a cikinsu su ne wankanta ." 

 Rayuwa 
An haife ta a Malmesbury, Wiltshire, ita ce babbar 'yar Henry Chandler, wani firist mai ra'ayin mazan jiya, daga baya a Bath, Somerset . Mahaifiyarta Miss Bridgman ce ta Marlborough, kuma Samuel Chandler ɗaya ne daga cikin 'yan'uwanta. A lokacin ƙuruciyarta, bayanta ya karkace, kuma lafiyarta ta yi rauni, amma ta kafa shagon sayar da kayan abinci a Bath a kusan 1705, lokacin da ba ta kai shekarun ƙuruciyarta ba, kuma ta rubuta tatsuniyoyi da waƙoƙi ga abokai.  Duk da nakasar da take da shi da kuma matsayinta na aji, ta saba da ƙungiyoyin Bath daban-daban, ciki har da Mrs. Boteler, Mrs. Moor, Lady Russell, da Duchess na Somerset. Kawar Jonathan Swift Mary Barber maƙwabciyarta ce, kuma ita ma abokiyar Elizabeth Rowe ce da Frances Seymour, Countess ta Hertford . Alexander Pope ya san kuma ya yaba wa waƙoƙinta. Ta mutu a ranar 11 ga Satumba, 1745. 

 Ayyuka 
An bayyana bugu na farko na fitaccen aikinta, A Description of Bath (1733), a matsayin 'wasiƙa ga aboki' kuma an keɓe ta ga likitanta, Dr. Oliver. Bugu na biyu ya fito a shekara mai zuwa, wanda aka rubuta wa Gimbiya Amelia, tare da baitocin asali na Dr. Oliver an cire su an maye gurbinsu. An yi asarar a bugu na uku, wanda aka fitar a shekarar 1736, wanda ya haɗa da waƙa 'Ga Doctor Oliver, wanda ya gyara waƙar Bath dina'. Bugu na huɗu ya biyo baya a shekarar 1738, kuma na biyar a shekarar 1741. Wani mutum mai arziki, mai shekaru sittin, ya buga ɗaya daga cikin waƙoƙinta, ya yi tafiya mil tamanin don ya gan ta, kuma, bayan ya sayi safar hannu daga gare ta, ya miƙa mata matarsa. Miss Chandler ta mayar da lamarin zuwa baiti, kuma bugu na shida na littafinta da aka kira a shekarar 1744, ya fito da ƙaramin taken, 'Wanda aka ƙara Gaskiya Tatsuniya, ta wannan Marubucin.' Bayan ta yi ritaya daga kasuwanci, ta fara waƙa 'On the Attributes of God,' amma ta bar shi ba a gama ba a mutuwarta. 

An buga bugu na bakwai na waƙoƙinta a shekarar 1755, kuma na takwas a shekarar 1767. Ta sadaukar da littafinta ga ɗan'uwanta John, kuma ɗan'uwanta Samuel ne ya rubuta 'Life' ɗinta, a cikin littafin Theophilus Cibber 's Lives of the Poets . 

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