Clara Milburn

Clara Milburn born Clara Emily Bagnall (24 June 1883 – 29 May 1961) was a British housewife in Coventry whose diary gives an insight into domestic life during the Second World War.

Life Milburn was born in Coventry in 1883. Her parents were Harriett (born Gibson) and her husband Frank Bagnall who was an iron turner. She had a brother named Frank who was in the engineering trade. Clara married "Jack" (John) Milburn in 1905 and they led a middle class life with a lifelong maid and two cars. She was a member of her local church and the Women's Institute and a supporter of her city's 14th-century cathedral. She and Jack had one child, Alan John Milburn, who was born in 1914.

Her son Alan died following a car crash in November 1959. Clara died 18 months later in Royal Leamington Spa on 28 May 1961. They were published in 1979 and they cover the years of the Second World War.

Her diary features in a book by Virginia Nicholson about women's experiences in Coventry during the Second World War.