Eric Siepmann

MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.

Other lovers reputedly included George Barker , writer and journalist, Eric Siepmann (who was later married to the novelist Mary Wesley ), Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody , and Ian Henderson .

Mary Eady, Lady Swinfen (later MW ) married her second husband, writer Eric Siepmann , whose ancestry was German and Irish though his birth and education were upper-class English.

In wartime London in 1944 she met journalist, linguist, and playwright Eric Siepmann . While they dined in the same restaurant, but not together, he sent her a series of increasingly drunken notes...

During his last years her husband struggled with depression, quarrels, and writer's block. She wrote later: He was his own destroyer. In January 1964 he had a nasty car crash, and the following year...

While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department , AW met Graham Greene , Simone Weil , and Kathleen Raine . Early in the war, as she gradually moved closer to the Church, she wrote...

She began writing seriously after the war, driven by the need for money. Siepmann had no job and they both intended to earn by writing. By 1947 she had apparently completed the draft of one...

Early in the second world war she wrote a short, satiric novel about people hurrying out of London for fear of expected air-raids; this manuscript was lost. Also during the war she wrote short stories...

Mary Eady, Lady Swinfen (later MW ) and Eric Siepmann (later her second husband) bought a house called Peakswater in the little village of Lansallos in Cornwall.

MW and her husband Eric Siepmann moved southwards across Dartmoor to Cullaford Cottage in Combe, an ancient cottage, half tiled and half thatched.

When Faber accepted the first of these books, MW 's husband Eric Siepmann wept with joy.

AW spent some weeks in Spain, which was poised on the brink of civil war, visiting Eric Siepmann .