John Mainwaring John Mainwaring John Mainwaring (1724–1807) was an English theologian and the first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel in any language. He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge. In 1760, one year after Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey he published anonymously a biography 'Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel'. More than half of this biography is focused on the years before 1712, when Handel moved to London. Therefore, it is supposed he received information from
Marion Mainwaring by Ivan Turgenev and edited "The Portrait Game", records of a parlor game played by Turgenev and his friends. Her last major work was "Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton" (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover. Marion Mainwaring Marion Jessie Mainwaring (April 21, 1922 – December 12, 2015) was an American writer, translator, and critic. Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel "The Buccaneers", published in 1993. She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the