biography
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Wesley, Mary
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originally Mary Siepmann, neé Wellesley
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1912–2002)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Englefield Green, West Berkshire, S England, UK. She studied at the London School of Economics, and had a number of jobs before beginning to write children's novels in the 1960s. Her first two adult novels, Jumping the Queue (1983) and The Camomile Lawn (1984), did not appear until she was in her 70s, and she then became a prolific writer of spirited comedies, later books including An Imaginative Experience (1994), Part of The Furniture (1997), and Part of the Scenary (2001). |
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