Chamber, Anna

[married name Anna Grenville-Temple, Countess Temple] At age forty, Chamber "‘discovered in herself a turn for genteel versification’ in the wry anapaestic mode of Matthew Prior (Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors, 4.361)" (DNB). In 1764 Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press published (under her maiden name) 100 copies of her "Poems." Her major poem, ‘To the Earl Temple: on Gardening’, reappeared in the 1768 and later editions of "the New Foundling Hospital for Wit" collection. Other verse remains unpublished. She wrote about politics, as well as satire on "contemporary manners and persons."