Rosie by Violet Shipley

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition.

This book shines a spotlight on the rather sad life of a very sweet woman. In her younger days, Rosie was happy and carefree, but after she married the Rev Joe Budge, her life became a misery. She bore him eight children and worked tirelessly as a padre's wife in remote, isolated Wheatbelt towns with very little money or luxuries.

Her husband, who was charming and attractive to women, spent his days driving around his parish meeting the locals (she was accused of having an affair) and he and the Anglican Church hierarchy decided it would be easier for him if Rosie was banished without her children to work in an Anglican Home for derelicts in Perth, where she spent many years before being reunited with her children.

This book offers the reader insight into the sanctimonious, self-righteous attitudes of men who ran the Anglican Church in Western Australia in the early 1900s.

First impression limited to 250 copies.