[lit-ideas] Re: Mrs. Miniver
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 20:57:46 -0800
Lawrence Helm wrote:
In one scene Mrs. Miniver finds a wounded German pilot in her yard. He
produces a Luger and insists that she feed him and give him a coat to
cover his uniform. She reproaches him for Germany’s killing of women
and children and he threatens to do the same to England. At which she
slaps him on the face.
Whereupon she rings up 'Bomber' Harris?
Mrs. Miniver was never conflicted. She knew that what the Fascist
believed was wrong.
The story appeared on the 'Court Page' of The Times of London in a
number of installments from 1937 to 1939. It was published in book form
in 1939, the year its author, Jan Struther, visited the US. FDR told her
'Mrs. Miniver had considerably hastened America's entry into the war;
and Winston Churchill said that Mrs. Miniver had done more for the
Allies than a flotilla of battleships.'
[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/struther/miniver/miniver.html]
Robert Paul
Reed College
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