# Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley

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- Book: [Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-marnham/wild-mary-the-life-of-mary-wesley) ([Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-marnham/wild-mary-the-life-of-mary-wesley.md))
- Authors: [Patrick Marnham](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-marnham)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4818-129-2
- Published: 2014-12-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn , in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace. Many of her stories were inspired by her experiences during the Blitz, and by her marriages: the first to an aristocrat, a brief and conventional affair, and the second to a penniless writer she adored. A remarkable book about a remarkable woman, Patrick Marnham's brilliantly researched and wonderfully impartial book disentangles truth from rumour, highlighting the links between Wesley's real life and her fiction.