Spilling the Beans: letters From an East Ham Vicarage 1953-1956

Lisa Wright

ISBN 10: 1906377154 / ISBN 13: 9781906377151

Published by Fisher King Publishing, U.K., 2010

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Signed by author on title page, without dedication. Seller Inventory # 039068

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Title: Spilling the Beans: letters From an East Ham...

Publisher: Fisher King Publishing, U.K.

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Like army wives, clergy wives are constantly ready to be on the move. The houses they live in do not belong to them and they have no choice in their size or location. Since the Second World War, vicarages and rectories have undergone a sea change. The vast, often very beautiful, dilapidated mansions have been sold off for profit by the Dioceses, and purpose built houses have been provided for the clergy. A clergy house now must have at least four bedrooms to allow for priests with large families and for visitors, a large sitting room that can be used for small parish meetings and social gatherings, a kitchen suitable for the same, and a study situated close to the front door. They have central heating and fridges and washing machines, and most have a decent sized garden with a large patch of grass suitable for summer fetes and parish gatherings. The clergy wife is expected to give hospitality to all and sundry and to be ready for whoever may call. It has not always been that way... In Spilling the Beans! Lisa Wright has assembled a collection of letters spanning the years 1953 - 1956, written by her mother, Margot, a rectors wife. These letters are a perfect snapshot of life in an English vicarage and a wonderful, amusing and heart-warming perspective of life in those post war years.