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Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (3 May 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099498170
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099498179
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,339 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" Marnham has disentangled truth from rumour, clarified the many connections between Wild Mary's rackety life and Mary Wesley's fiction."
- "Spectator"

Telegraph - Rev'd Heather Thompson
`Marnham's entertaining biography.'


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5.0 out of 5 stars A fair description, 1 Feb 2009
I have always enjoyed reading Mary Wesley's books. I enjoy her unique phraseology, for instance 'the matricide' in Jumping the Queue is never named, and her unusual use of verbs. From her biography we learn of her scant formal education, her enormous joie de vivre, her uncritical attitude to the morals of her age. We understand how her books confront some of the difficulties she faced in her life and she how she exorcised painful memories through the triumph of her characters. I ended the book feeling more than ever that I would have liked to have known her personally.
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4.0 out of 5 stars I would never have guessed, 11 Jun 2009
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I very much enjoyed Mary Wesley's books themelves - but had always imagined Mary herself as an ex school teacher character who hadn't started writing until she retired. I had never read, heard or seen anything about Mary herself, other than as a brief mention about her not starting to write until she was 70. My surprise was extreme therefore to find Mary was absolutely and completly different to how I had assumed. Certainly the rather unconventional characters and situations that abound in her own books now make sense and are obviously very much the based upon her own life, family and friends. This biography has obviously been very well researched and is very readable - it also seems to me to paint a relatively unbiased picture of a fascinating woman. A woman that one does not always feel sympathy with - but who obviously had many many facets to her character, some good some bad just like the rest of us. Certainly worth a read.
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