# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marion-chesney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:43:15.891Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marion-chesney"
name: "Marion Chesney"
slug: "marion-chesney"
description: "Marion Gibbons was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery novels, whose career as a published author began in 1979. She wrote numerous successful historical romance novels under a form of her maiden name, Marion Chesney, including the \"Travelling Matchmaker\" and \"Daughters of Mannerling\" series."
tagline: "British writer (1936–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M_C_Beaton_by_David_Shankbone_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-06-10"
deathDate: "2019-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.64
  momentum:             6.87192118226601
  historical:           16.075832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1014429/"
    handle:    "nm1014429"
sources:
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    title: "Мериън Чесни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
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    title: "Marion Chesney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "M. C. Beaton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump