Wild Mary. A Life of Mary Wesley

Marnham, Patrick

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Chatto and Windus / Random House, London, 2006

0701179910 / 9780701179915

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First edition, subsequent impression with number line '4 6 8 10 9 7 5'. Some very slight edge wear to top of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, looks unread. 289pp. Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70, and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke of Wellington, and grew up a rebel who believed that she was her mother's least favourite child. Like many girls of her background, she married for escape, but her first marriage to Lord Swinfen was conventional. Her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a writer who never managed to make any money at all, was feckless and bohemian. In between Swinfen and Siepmann, she had a love affair with Czech war hero, Heinz Ziegler, and possibly with his brother at the same time, and in her later years enjoyed a torrid relationship with Robert Bolt. At the outbreak of the Second World War she was, as she put it, 'roped into intelligence', where she worked on breaking codes. Her experiences in MI5 and her many wartime love affairs, which form the core of this biography, also formed the cores of her novels. She wrote about the atmosphere of the home front, and how war dislocates families, and how a sense of the imminence of death loosens the inhibitions, her novels are sexy and witty. She also drew on her love and knowledge of Cornwall.…

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Titre
Wild Mary. A Life of Mary Wesley
Auteur
Marnham, Patrick
Éditeur
Chatto and Windus / Random House, London
Année de publication
2006
État de l'article
Near Fine
Jaquette
Near Fine
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0701179910
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780701179915
Édition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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