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Mary Aline Mynors Farmar, CBE (June 24, 1912 - December 30, 2002), better known as Mary Wesley, was a British novelist. During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novellists selling three million copies of her books, but since her first adult novel was published in her 70s, she may be regarded as a late bloomer.
Born in Englefield Green, Surrey, the third child of Colonel Harold and Violet Mynors Farmar, she became an author late in life after the death of her second husband, Eric Siepmann, left her near impoverishment. She wrote two books for children before publishing adult fiction. Her take on life reveals a sharp and critical eye which neatly dissects the idiosyncrasies of genteel England with humour, compassion and irony, detailing in particular sexual and emotional values.
Her best known book, The Camomile Lawn, set on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall, was turned into a television series, and is an account of the intertwining lives of three families in rural England during World War II. She was honoured with a CBE in 1995.
She died of natural causes following a long battle with gout, aged 90, in Totnes, Devon.
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Works
Novels for Children
- Speaking Terms (1969)
- The Sixth Seal (1969)
- Haphazard House (1983)
Novels for Adults
- Jumping the Queue (1983)
- The Camomile Lawn (1984)
- Harnessing Peacocks (1985)
- The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1986)
- Not That Sort of Girl (1987)
- Second Fiddle (1988)
- A Sensible Life (1990)
- A Dubious Legacy (1992)
- An Imaginative Experience (1994)
- Part of the Furniture (1997)
Autobiographical
- Part of the Scenery (2001)
References
[1] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Jan 2006 accessed 25 June 2006
External links
- Mary Wesley's West Country Inspiration - lady.co.uk
- Author Mary Wesley dies - BBC News
- Mary Wesley - Buzzle
See also
Marnham, Patrick, Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley, Chatto and Windus, 2006, ISBN 0-7011-79910.
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