Order of Mary Ann Shaughnessy Books
Mary Ann Shaughnessy is the protagonist in a series of regional fiction novels by English novelist Catherine Cookson. Mary Ann is a poor young girl who lives in a dockland tenement in Tyneside, North East England. Her goal is to find a better life for her family. The series is also known as the Mary Ann Stories.
Catherine Cookson began her Mary Ann Shaughnessy series in 1954 with the novel A Grand Man. The series contains nine novels and concluded in 1991 with the novel Bill and the Mary Ann Shaughnessy. Below is a list of Catherine Cookson’s Mary Ann Shaughnessy books in order of when they were first published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Mary Ann Shaughnessy Books
A Grand Man | (1954) | |
The Lord and Mary Ann | (1956) | |
The Devil and Mary Ann | (1958) | |
Love and Mary Ann | (1961) | |
Life and Mary Ann | (1962) | |
Marriage and Mary Ann | (1964) | |
Mary Ann’s Angels | (1965) | |
Mary Ann and Bill | (1967) | |
Bill and the Mary Ann Shaughnessy | (2011) |