Frances Sheridan (née Chamberlaine; 1724 – 26 September 1766) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.

In 1747 she married Thomas Sheridan, who was then an actor and theatre director, and at the same time she began work on her first novel, Eugenia and Adelaide.

Her most successful novel, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761), in diary format, was influenced by Samuel Richardson's Pamela.

She then turned to drama, and two of her plays were produced at London's Drury Lane theatre by David Garrick's company in the 1760s.

[6] Her oriental tale, The History of Nourjahad, and her sequel to The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph, were published posthumously.