On 6 March 1890, at
Holy Trinity Brompton,
Knightsbridge, aged 22 and still living at 16, Onslow Square, Mary Lutyens married George Wemyss, a captain in the
West Yorkshire Regiment, who gave his father's name as Frederick Augustus von Wachsmann. The Rev. H. W. Webb-Peploe, Vicar of St Paul's, Onslow Square, officiated. George Wemyss had been born in
New Zealand. Wemyss published at least twelve novels between 1910 and 1919. Already by 1914 her work was the subject of interest in the United States. Reviewing her
Oranges and Lemons in 1919,
Punch noted
The New York Times also reviewed
Oranges and Lemons, summing it up as “A CONVENTIONAL and mildly — very mildly — amusing little story”. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, George and Mary Wemyss were living together near
Stroud,
Gloucestershire. He was a retired Major, while she was noted as having private means. In their household were a butler, a cook, a lady's maid, and two housemaids. George Wemyss died at home at Atcombe Court,
Woodchester, Gloucestershire, in March 1944, leaving an estate valued at £22,920. His widow survived him until 15 March 1951, dying at 16, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington. Probate on her estate valued it at £54,699. ==Bibliography==