A Vicar's Wife in Oxford, 1938-1943 The Diary of Madge Martin - The Oxfordshire Record Society

War had an impact on even genteel civilians in unraided cities like Oxford (though safety was never assured), among them Madge Martin (born 1899), wife of the vicar of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford. Her pre-war life, full of travel, theatre visits, walks, books and films, was jolted into very different realities: she found herself undertaking more housework (by 1943 she had lost both her maids), volunteering with the Red Cross, and housing her two sisters' families, who self-evacuated at different times to Madge's home to escape London's air raids. Her private diary, engagingly and accessibly written, discloses much about her thoughts and feelings and social relations; some tribulations (she endured serious and frequent headaches); and her ambivalences concerning her role as a parson's wife. It shows both the persistence of comfortable, established lifestyles and necessary adaptations to theconstraints of existing in wartime. It is presented here with notes and introduction. PATRICIA and ROBERT MALCOLMSON are social historians with a special interest in Mass Observation, women in World War Two, and Englishdiaries written between the 1930s and the 1950s.

ISBN:	9780902509740
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:	Oxfordshire Record Society
Published date:	20 Sep 2018
DEWEY:	942.574084092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiv, 270 , 8 unnumbered of plates
Weight:	628g
Height:	164mm
Width:	240mm
Spine width:	30mm

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