Order of Mary Ann Shaughnessy Books

Order of Mary Ann Shaughnessy Books

Mary Ann Shaughnessy by Catherine Cookson

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)