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David Reynolds: The Real Mrs Miniver, 25 April 2002
The Real Mrs Miniver
by Ysenda Maxtone Graham.
Murray, 314 pp., £17.99, November 2001,0 7195 5541 8 Show More
by Ysenda Maxtone Graham.
Murray, 314 pp., £17.99, November 2001,
“... most reviewers were also touched by the film and its evocation of the Home Front. ‘I love it,’ Vera Brittain wrote in her diary, ‘but I think Jan Struther is a charlatan posing as a patriot in the safety of the USA.’ For Struther herself the movie brought renewed fame and a kind of catharsis: to her relief, Greer Garson gradually assumed the ... ”