17 October 1828[1] – 24 March 1882[2])[3] was an English writer best known for a book that helped set off a Victorian fad for collecting ferns in Devon.
Her older brothers Charles and Henry both became novelists, as did her niece, Lucas Malet.
[3] Her husband, John Mills Chanter, became the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Ilfracombe.
[7] Her brother Charles coined the term pteridomania for this Victorian craze for ferns.
[8] Chanter's 1861 novel, Over the Cliffs, had elements of both the gothic novel and the sensation novel, with a plot revolving around murder and an inheritance.