Editing Mary Wesley (section)

===Adult life===
[[Lewis Clive]] fell in love with Wesley and asked her to marry him.<ref name=odnb/> In ''[[The Camomile Lawn]]'', the character Oliver Ansty is a fictionalised version of Clive.<ref>Marnham 2006, p. 52.</ref>

Wesley's first husband was [[Baron Swinfen|Charles Swinfen Eady, 2nd Baron Swinfen]], with whom she had a son, [[Roger Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron Swinfen]]; although her son [[Toby Eady]], born in 1941, was initially known as the son of Lord Swinfen, Wesley subsequently admitted his father to be the Czech political scientist [[Heinz Otto Ziegler]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mary-wesley-137818.html | title = Obituaries: Mary Wesley | website = [[Independent.co.uk]] | date= 31 December 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/02/19/toby-eady-literary-agent-obituary/ | title=Toby Eady, literary agent – obituary | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=19 February 2018 }}</ref> Toby Eady was eventually the literary agent of her biographer [[Patrick Marnham]]. She next married Eric Siepmann and with him had a third son, William Siepmann.<ref name=dnb>{{cite web | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/88714 | title = Siepmann [''née'' Farmar], Mary Aline | work = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | edition = online | publisher = Oxford University Press | date = January 2006 | access-date = 25 June 2006}}</ref>

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.<ref name=dnb/>