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Eric Siepmann (1903-1970), Playwright and journalist; husband of Mary Aline Siepmann. Sitter in 5 portraits
Nov 6, 2017 · Posted on November 6, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley. The letters between novelist Mary Wesley and her second husband Eric Siepmann have been published and are reviewed by D J Taylor in The Times. The book is entitled Darling Pol and is edited by Wesley’s biographer Patrick Marnham.
Harvill Secker 308pp £20. Mary Wesley became a literary star in 1983, when she published her first novel at the age of seventy. By that time her second husband, Eric Siepmann, himself a writer of sorts, was dead. They had met in 1944 in the Palm Court of the Ritz, bombs tumbling around them. They were both married.
- Sara Wheeler
She next married Eric Siepmann and with him had a third son, William Siepmann. [8] In 1970 Wesley was left impoverished by the death of Siepmann, and it was only then that she became an author, turning to writing as a way to restore her finances.
- 24 June 1912, Englefield Green
- 30 December 2002 (aged 90), Totnes
Jan 1, 2003 · It was written in the years after the death of her second husband, Eric Siepmann, a journalist she married in 1952 and whose name she kept for the rest of her life. (Known as Mary Aline...
Jan 1, 2003 · Meeting Eric Siepmann in 1944 provided the love of her life, and at his death she did consider jumping the queue, but wrote the book instead. With Eric's death Mary was like a person who...
Oct 26, 2017 · Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence charted their life together (and apart) with unusual candour and spirit. These remarkable letters, which were inspired by Mary's great love story with Eric, were also the means by which the novelist found her voice.
