Private Life
In 1938, he married the poet Kathleen Raine (previously married to Hugh Sykes Davies), and in 1942 Inez Spender (née Inez Maria Pearn, previously married to Stephen Spender).
His archived correspondence with Kathleen and Inez is particularly revealing. Often tortuous relationships within a close-knit circle of peers are recorded with candour. Madge's letters to Inez also record his work with Mass-Observation and the Communist Party in some detail. Inez died in 1976.
From his marriage to Raine he had two children: Anna Madge (born 1934) and James Wolf Madge (1936–2006). James married Jennifer Shirley Alliston, daughter of architect Jane Drew with her first husband James Thomas Alliston.
In 1979 he married Evelyn Brown, who died in 1984.
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