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Mary Wesley Books in Order

15 books are credited to Mary Wesley, published between 1969 and 2017; 1 of them appeared after Mary Wesley's death in 2002. The first book is The Sixth Seal (1969) and the newest is Darling Pol (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
15
Published
1969–2017
Pages on record
3,469 in 14 of 15 books
Reading time
58–87 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,469 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 14 of 15 titles with a page count on record.

See all 15 books in order Printable Mary Wesley checklist

Mary Wesley was the pen name of Mary Aline Siepmann CBE (1912-2002), an English novelist who sold three million copies and had ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life. The Sixth Seal and Speaking Terms both appeared in 1969, and the novels that made the name came later: Jumping the Queue (1983), The Camomile Lawn (1984), Harnessing Peacocks (1985), The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1986), Not That Sort of Girl (1987) and A Sensible Life (1990). Fifteen titles are catalogued through the 2017 letters volume Darling Pol. The Second World War, marriage and English family life recur as subjects.

How many Mary Wesley books are there?

Mary Wesley has 15 books, released between 1969 and 2017. 1 of them were published after Mary Wesley's death in 2002.

Mary Wesley Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 15 Mary Wesley books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Sixth Seal by Mary Wesley (1969)
  2. Cover of Jumping the Queue by Mary Wesley (1983)
  3. Cover of The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley (1984)
  4. Cover of Harnessing Peacocks by Mary Wesley (1985)
  5. Cover of The Vacillations of Poppy Carew by Mary Wesley (1986)
  6. Cover of Not That Sort of Girl by Mary Wesley (1987)
  7. Cover of Second Fiddle by Mary Wesley (1988)
  8. Cover of An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley (1994)
  9. Cover of Part of the Furniture by Mary Wesley (1997)
  10. Cover of Part of the Scenery by Mary Wesley (2001)
  1. 1
    The Sixth Seal1969 · 246 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969246
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  2. 2
    Speaking Terms1969 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1969128
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  3. 3
    Jumping the Queue1983 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983217
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  4. 4
    Haphazard House1983 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983160
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  5. 5
    The Camomile Lawn1984 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1984336
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  6. 6
    Harnessing Peacocks1985 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985288
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  7. 7
    The Vacillations of Poppy Carew1986 · 262 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986262
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  8. 8
    Not That Sort of Girl1987 · confirmed 1/4
    1987–
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  9. 9
    Second Fiddle1988 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1988184
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  10. 10
    A Sensible Life1990 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990368
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  11. 11
    A Dubious Legacy1992 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1992272
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  12. 12
    An Imaginative Experience1994 · 240 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1994240
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  13. 13
    Part of the Furniture1997 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997256
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  14. 14
    Part of the Scenery2001 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001192
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  15. 15
    Darling Pol2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017320
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Mary Wesley books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Standalone books

15 books

15 Mary Wesley titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Mary Wesley books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 15 Mary Wesley books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Mary Wesley

Start with The Sixth Seal (1969), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Mary Wesley book?

Darling Pol (2017) is the newest Mary Wesley book released so far.

Is there a new Mary Wesley book coming?

No next Mary Wesley book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Mary Wesley at a glance

Died
Mary Wesley died in 2002, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Mary Wesley are still being published after Mary Wesley's death in 2002; the newest appeared in 2017.
Release pace
Mary Wesley books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
3,469 pages across the 14 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 251 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Mary Wesley books, 7 of 15, were published in the 1980s.

What the Mary Wesley books are about

All 15 Mary Wesley books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: england is tagged on 3 of 15. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.