Beschreibung
Published here for the first time, this remarkable cache of letters reveals the great love story of Mary Wesley's life.
They met by chance in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel on the evening of 26 October 1944. By the time she eventually caught the train back to Penzance two days later they had fallen in love and Eric had declared that he was determined to marry her
Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. We lived our ups and downs but life was never boring. Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence lively, intimate, passionate, frustrated charted their life together (and apart) with unusual candour and spirit.
Marnham suggests that through these letters Mary, who famously blossomed as a novelist in her seventies, a decade after Eric's death, found her voice. Bequeathed to Marnham in two size-5 shoeboxes, this is one of the great surviving post-war correspondences.
With you I can become the person I really am and bearing the grave in mind be buried as such. Dear love consider yourself kissed Mary, 30 October 1944
I find you brave and amusing, understanding and beautiful, simple and sophisticated, and I love you. More than that, I mean to get you Eric, 5 December 1944
Autorenportrait
Mary Wesley (Author) Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. She also worked part-time in the antiques trade. Mary Wesley lived in London, France, Italy, Germany and several places in the West Country. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel published at the age of seventy'. That first novel,Jumping the Queue, was followed by a subsequent nine bestsellers:The Camomile Lawn, Second Fiddle, Harnessing Peacocks, The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, Not That Sort of Girl, A Sensible Life, A Dubious Legacy, An Imaginative ExperienceandPart of the Furniture. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002. Patrick Marnham (Edited by) Patrick Marnhamwas born in Jerusalem, educated at Oxford and is a member of the English Bar. He is the author of several books, including the bestsellingWild Mary, has been translated into seven languages and has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, and been nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award. He has been literary editor ofThe Spectator, was the first Paris correspondent of theIndependent, and has worked as a BBC scriptwriter and broadcaster and as a special correspondent and war reporter.
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