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The initial ‘J’ stands both for Joyce and for Jan.

Ada, the cook at Wellington Square

Adams, Franklin P. (1881–1960, NYC newspaper columnist)

Appin, Argyllshire; family stayed at Druimavuic House

Austin Riggs Sanatorium, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Anstruther family, originally of Balcaskie, Pittenweem, Fife:

Henry Torrens (Harry), MP for St Andrews, J’s father, 1860–1926, younger son of the 5th baronet

Hon. Eva, DBE (1869–1935, his wife, née Hanbury-Tracy, ‘the Dame’, J’s mother)

Douglas Tollemache (their only son, J’s brother, born 1893, married twice, died 1956), of Greyfriars, Redbourn, Herts

Joyce, their only daughter, see Struther

Bach, J.S.

Balkan journey

Barrington-Ward, Robert M., DSO, MC (1891–1948, editor of The Times)

Bayano (Fyffes Line banana boat, built 1917, converted for passengers, 6,815 tons); drunken breakfast menu

BBC

Beaverbrook, 1st Baron (1879–1964, politician and newspaper magnate)

Berry, Ruth (1900–88, of Campden Street, Kensington)

Bev, see Placzek, and see Robinson

Blythe, Nan (nannie to the Smythe family, died 2002, unmarried, aged 101)

Bowes-Lyon, Lady Elizabeth (fellow pupil, later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, died 2002 aged 101)

British Information Service

Brittain, Vera (1893–1970, author, of Glebe Place, Chelsea)

Brown, John Mason (1900–69, critic and author)

Brunswick, Germany, Tony’s POW camp; Brunswick Boys’ Club, London, founded by Tony and fellow POWs

Cambridge, where Robert took his law degree at Trinity College

Campbell, Lady George, née Sybil Lascelles Alexander (1860–1947, the Dame’s enemy, first mother-in-law of Douglas Anstruther)

Campbell, James, gamekeeper at Cultoquhey

Camp Kieve, Nobelboro, Maine

Camps Library, First World War charity

Cane, Melville (NYC attorney and poet)

Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Chamberlain, Neville (1869–1940, Prime Minister)

Chatto & Windus Ltd, publishers

Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy, Tony’s POW camp

Churchill, Winston (1874–1965, Prime Minister)

City of Benares (Ellerman Line flagship, torpedoed in late 1940 with loss of 77 evacuee children)

Cominucci, Al, maintenance man at Beekman Place

Csato, Tibor, MD Vienna, MRCS, LRCP London, Hungarian doctor engaged in cancer research at Brompton Hospital, later consultant at Great Cumberland Place, London

Cultoquhey, Crieff, Perthshire, original home of the Maxtone Graham family (pronounced ‘Cult-o-way’)

Curtis Brown Ltd, literary agents

Curtis Brown, Anne, Jan’s secretary

Curtis Brown, Beatrice (writer, Bea Horton)

Darling, Hon. Diana (fellow pupil and member of the Scratch Society, died unmarried, 1961)

Davis, Bette (1908–89, actress)

Dawson, Geoffrey (1874–1944, editor of The Times)

de Tapla, Anne (of NYC, benefactress of the Placzeks)

Dearmer, Revd Percy (1867–1936, Canon of Westminster)

Dolf, see Placzek family

Donne, John (1573–1631, the poet)

Douglas, see Anstruther family

Drummond, Gena (fellow pupil)

Duchess of Atholl (Canadian Pacific liner, built 1928, 20, 119 tons, converted to a troopship, torpedoed 1942)

Dunkirk evacuation

Edinburgh; Bilston Lodge

Egypt, J’s visit; Tony on active service in

Eisler, Fritz, doctor in Vienna, Dolf’s stepfather

Eisler, Pauly, formerly Plazcek, Dolf’s mother

Ernst, Morris Leopold (1888–1976, NYC attorney)

Eton College, Berkshire

Fadiman, Clifton (1902–99, writer, question-master of Information, Please!)

Fleming, Peter, OBE (1907–71, writer)

Forster, E. M., OM (1879–1970, author)

Fox, James (born 1939, as child actor played Toby in Miniver Story)

France

Franklin, Sydney, film producer

Froeschel, George (a screen writer of Mrs Miniver)

Garson, Greer (1904–96, actress, played Mrs Miniver, married Richard Ney, divorced)

Gascoigne, Kathleen (childhood friend)

George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania (Janet’s school)

Getts, Clark H. (NYC lecture tour booking agent)

Golenpaul, Dan (1900–74, of 5th Ave., NYC, creator of Information, Please!)

Goebbels, Josef (1897–1945, Nazi propaganda minister)

Good, Annie ‘Mabel’, ‘Nannie’ (born in England, 1904, brought up in Canada, returned to London, worked as the Maxtone Graham nannie, 1931–40, and as caretaker at Wellington Square and Alexander Place, 1945–53; unmarried; died 1983)

Gordonstoun, Elgin, Morayshire (a house until 1934, then a school; Jamie’s school after an unsuccessful start at Eton)

Gracie, J’s maid, NYC

Gregory, Sir (John) Roger (1861–1938, solicitor)

Gregynog, Montgomeryshire, now Powys, Wales (a Sudeley property)

Gunther, John (1901–70, author of Inside Europe)

Hahn, Kurt, CBE (1886–1974, founder of Gordonstoun School)

Halifax, Earl of (1881–1959, British Ambassador to USA)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the VE day riots there

Hanbury, Ruth (1901–2000, J’s cousin and childhood friend, married Gerald Tenison of Lough Bawn, Co. Monaghan, Eire)

Hanbury-Tracy, see Sudeley

Harcourt Brace Inc., publishers

Harvey, Harriet (fellow patient)

Harvey School, Westchester County, NY (Robert’s school)

Haycock, Lizzie (J’s grandparents’ maid)

Hess, Dame Myra, DBE (1890–1965, pianist)

Hewitt-Myring, Philip (born 1900 in Paris; journalist, London; Robert’s godfather)

Hilton, James (1900–54, author, main screen writer of Mrs Miniver)

Hirsch, Gladys (fellow pupil)

Holland, Mrs Martin, teacher

Horton, see Curtis Brown

Hudson, Lucy (‘Lala’, J’s nannie)

‘Indiana Compromise’

Information Ministry

Jackel, Dr (NYC psychiatrist)

Jamie, see Maxtone Graham

Jan, see Struther

Janet, see Maxtone Graham

Jessel, Vera Pearl (fellow pupil, later Mrs Clive Martyn, 1899–1928)

Johnson, Celia, DBE (1908–82, actress, Mrs Peter Fleming)

Joshua, Nell (fellow pupil)

Joyce, see Struther

Karloff, Boris (1887–1969, horror film actor)

Kieran, John (1882–1981, NYC sports journalist)

Kubie, Lawrence (Austrian-born psychoanalyst in NYC)

Lala, see Hudson

Launde Abbey, near Oakham (Col. Edward Dawson’s house)

Lazarus, René (fellow pupil)

Lee, Canada (Lionel Canegata, 1907–52, welterweight boxer turned actor)

Lehmann, Rosamond, CBE (1901–90, novelist)

Levant, Oscar (1906–72, pianist and actor)

Lewis, Peggy (fellow pupil)

London, and, passim

Albert Hall, Kensington; Alexander Place, South Kensington; Battersea Park; Bloomsbury House, Great Russell Street; Caroline Place (now Donne Place), Chelsea; Cheyne Walk, Chelsea; Curzon Street, Mayfair; Denbigh Street, Pimlico; Halsey Street, Chelsea; Imperial War Museum; Kilburn Polytechnic; King’s Road, Chelsea; Little College Street, Westminster; Lloyds of London; National Gallery wartime concerts; Ormeley Lodge, Ham; Scotland Yard; South Street, Mayfair; Swan Walk, Chelsea; US Embassy and Consulate; Walpole Street, Chelsea; Wellington Square, Chelsea; the dining-room

Lord Baldwin’s Appeal for Refugees

Lubbock, Cynthia (fellow pupil, later Mrs Alexander Wedderburn, 1899–1986)

Mason, Michael Henry (1900–82, yachtsman and travel writer, of Freeland, Oxfordshire; Janet’s godfather)

Mardenn, Bennes, drama teacher, NYC

Margie, J’s secretary, NYC

Marx Brothers

Maxtone Graham family, originally of Cultoquhey, Crieff, Perthshire

(Ellen) ‘Ann’, 1899–1991, née Taylor, of Cape Cod, first wife of Patrick

Anthony George, 1854–1930, Tony’s bachelor uncle

Anthony James Oliphant, ‘Tony’, born Edinburgh, 23 July 1900, J’s first husband: joined Scots Guards at Pirbright Camp; to North Africa; prisoner of war; POW life; impresario; camp theatre; post-war ambitions; liberated; reunited with J; effect of POW life; tries for Parliament; wants separation; unfulfilling work; irritated by J; described when asleep; leaves Wellington Square; ‘gentlemanly thing’, and divorce; wedding reception for Janet at Cultoquhey; remarries; sells Cultoquhey; moves to Edinburgh and then to Aberlady, East Lothian; his death, India, 8 June 1971

Claudia, formerly Page-Phillips, née Tannert, Robert’s wife, the author’s mother

Diana Evelyn, née Macgegor, Jamie’s first wife, J’s daughter-in-law

(Margaret) Ethel, née Blair-Oliphant, 1861–1952, wife of Jim, family historian, mother of Tony

James (Jim), 1863–1940, Chartered Accountant in Edinburgh, Tony’s father

James Anstruther (Jamie), J’s eldest child, born 10 May 1924 at Walpole Street; later career, two marriages, and children; died November 2001

Janet Mary, J’s only daughter, born 24 March 1928 at Sydney Street, married Patrick Rance, q.v.; career, marriage, seven children, and her death, 18 December 1996

Michael and John, born 1929, twin sons of Patrick

Mungo, Lt. Col. in the Jacobite army, 1719, died 1763; his ‘Litany’

Patrick, 1903–65, of 45 Tregunter Road, later of 17 Alexander Place, South Kensington; stockbroker; married twice; Tony’s younger brother

‘Peggy’, Margaret Louise Rosalind Barne, née Percival, died 1994, Tony’s second wife

Peter, born 1927, died in New Guinea, 1963, eldest son of Patrick

Robert Mungo, J’s youngest child, born 6 May 1931 at Wellington Square; career, marriage to Claudia, and their daughter Ysenda

Ysenda, of Edinburgh, ‘Os’, J’s sister-in-law, 1895–1990, see Smythe

Ysenda, of London, the author of this book, born 31 December 1962

Mayer, Louis B. (1885–1957, Hollywood film mogul)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Monson, 9th Baron, died 1940, and his American-born wife, died 1943, described

Moseley, Miss, teacher

Munich crisis of 1938

‘Nannie’, see Good.

Nash, Ogden (1902–71, humorous writer)

New York City, and onwards, passim; Beekman Place; Central Park South; Columbia University and Avery Architectural Library; East 49th Street; East 70th Street; Harlem; Hell’s Kitchen; Public Library; Queen’s; Radio City Music Hall; Social Register; Trinity School; West 62nd Street; West 82nd Street; West 68th Street; West 87th Street; West 101st Street; West 114th Street; World’s Fair

Ney, Richard (born 1917, actor, played Vin Miniver, married Greer Garson, divorced)

Norton, Sir Clifford, KCMG (1891–1990, British Ambassador to Greece), and his wife Noel Evelyn ‘Peter’, died 1972

O’Donnell, Cathy (1923–70, played Judy in Miniver Story)

Office of War Information (US)

Orde, Cuthbert (‘Turps’, 1888–1968, portrait-painter, of Sydney Close, Chelsea)

Pardee, Dr, neurologist, NYC

Paris

Pan’s Garden, Beaulieu, Hampshire, house built by Dame Eva Anstruther, later renamed Kelham

Patterson, Hope (fellow patient)

Pearl Harbor attacked

Philipp, Ernst and Franz (Dolf’s cousins)

Pidgeon, Walter (1897–1984, actor, played Clem Miniver)

Placzek family, formerly of Vienna (pronounced ‘Plah-check’):

Adolf Kurt, ‘Dolf’, J’s second husband, from 114 onwards, passim; born Vienna 9 March 1913; student in Vienna; as a Jew, excluded from his University when Nazis take over; farewell photographs; refugee to London; meets J; with J at Brighton; sails to NYC; reunited with J; librarianship course at Columbia; crosses the campus; granted US citizenship, and joins US Army; in Army uniform; army service, promotion, manoeuvres, commended; demobilized, and works at Avery Library, Columbia University; promoted; his violin restored from Nazi Vienna; marries J; at picnic in Canada; on board ship; at J’s death; remarries; Avery Librarian, and emeritus professor on retirement; edits major architectural reference books, and his Vienna memoirs published; his death, 19 March 2000

‘Bev’, Laura Beverley, born 1913, née Robinson, then Mrs Kalitinski; Mrs A. K. Placzek, Dolf’s widow, living 2001 on West 87th Street, NYC

concentration camp victims among Dolf’s relations

Grand Rabbi of Moravia, Dolf’s paternal grandfather

Susan, Dolf’s sister

Potter, H. C. ‘Hank’ (1904–77, film director; Miniver Story was his last film)

Rachel, née Maxtone Graham, J’s sister-in-law, see Townsend

Rance, Pat (Major Patrick Lowry Cole Holwell Rance, 1918–99, Janet’s husband, J’s son-in-law)

Raphael, Elsie (fellow pupil)

Richardson, Miss, teacher

Rob, Robbie, Robert, see Maxtone Graham

Robeson, Paul (1898–1976, singer and actor)

Robinson, Bev (John Beverley Robinson, 1884–1954, Canadian uncle of Bev Plazcek née Robinson, and his wife Marian)

Roosevelt, Eleanor (1882–1945, the First Lady)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882–1945, President)

Rose, J’s maid

Russell, Sheridan (1900–91, musician and hospital almoner, of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea)

Rye, Sussex, and the cottage on the golf course

Sandars, Clare, played Judy Miniver, and her father Eric

Sandberg, Carl (1878–1967, poet)

Sanders, Peter (Arthur Thomas ‘Peter’), 2nd Lieut, Grenadier Guards, 1900–20, son and heir of the future Baron Bayford

Sandwich, Kent

Schmidt, Thomi, of Binghampton, NY

Schurr, Dr Max, of NYC

Schwarz, Gerhard, radiologist, NYC

Scots Guards, Tony’s, Jamie’s and Robert’s regiment

Scratch Society, of London, for young writers

Severn, Christopher, played Toby Miniver

Shepard, Ernest H., OBE (1879–1976, artist); his illustrations

Sherriff, R. C. (1896–1975, a screen writer of Mrs Miniver)

Smith, Revd Sydney (1771–1845), quoted

Smythe family (pronounced ‘Smith’) of 38 Heriot Row, Edinburgh:

Patrick Cecil, OBE, Writer to the Signet (1888–1969)

Ysenda Mabel, his wife (‘Os’, née Maxtone Graham, J’s sister-in-law, 1895–1990)

Patrick Mungo, their first son, jazz pianist (1923–1983)

(David) Philip, their second son (1925–1959)

Charles Maxtone, their youngest son (1928–95)

Spencer, Charles Nicholas, and his wife ‘Oscar’ (artists, of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea)

Stevenson, Adlai (1900–65, presidential candidate)

Stirling-Home-Drummond-Moray family of Abercairny, Perthshire

Stowe School, Buckingham, Robert’s school

Struther, Jan (Joyce Anstruther, Joyce Maxtone Graham, Jan Struther Placzek):

OUTLINE OF EVENTS:

Born 6 June 1901, London

Parents, see Harry Anstruther and Dame Eva Anstruther; they separated

Photographed at age; with her mother; at age

Education

Writer, journalist and poet with pseudonym Jan Struther from age

Learns shorthand and typing; first job at Scotland Yard

The modern maiden

Her first love, Peter Sanders; his suicide

To Egypt with her father

Meets Tony and they fall in love; they marry

Balkan journey

Births of elder son Jamie; of only daughter Janet; and of younger son Robert

Photographed with the three children; with Jamie

Life at Wellington Square

Wrote hymns

Wrote in association with Ernest Shepard

Holidays in Scotland; shooting with Tony; at Crieff Games

They take a cottage on Rye golf course

Begins to be bored by Tony; and Tony’s changed attitude to her

Start of mutual infidelity

Economising; they move to an unsatisfactory smaller house; and soon move again

First signs of depression

Peter Fleming suggests writing articles for The Times Court page

First Mrs Miniver article in The Times

Try Anything Twice published

Writes 60 fourth leaders for The Times

Photographed with the family in 1939

Outbreak of war

Mrs Miniver articles collected and published as a book

Meets Dolf, they become lovers; photographed at Brighton

Dolf sails for NYC

After the fall of France, Tony urges her to take Janet and Robert to USA; and she is urged to go there by Sir Frederick Whyte to aid war effort

Sails to NYC, and gives up name Joyce in favour of Jan

Reunited with Dolf

Joins Information, Please!

First lecture tour; longest tour; a tour described; last wartime tour

MGM film of Mrs Miniver mooted; film rights sold

Holidays with children; with Dolf

Broadcasts

Dentistry

Première of film

Moves to Central Park South

Corresponds with Eleanor Roosevelt, stays at the White House, and meets the President

To Los Angeles for the summer; photographed with Dolf

Exhaustion and depression, ‘the Jungles’

Gastritis

Honorary degree of D. Litt at the University of Pennsylvania

VE day; leaves NYC; the Halifax riots

Sails for England and is reunited with Tony

Irritated with Tony and vice versa

To Appin for a stressful holiday with the family

Photographed with Robert’s cairn terrier

They move back into Wellington Square, and give a dance for Janet

Tells Janet of love for Dolf

BBC radio and TV broadcasts

Marriage floundering; Tony and J agree to a divorce

Last week at Wellington Square; buys house in Alexander Place

Sails to NYC and lives in a slum area

To UK for the divorce hearing in Edinburgh

Returns to NYC

Consults various doctors, then Dr Kubie

To England for Christmas

Accepts Dolf’s marriage proposal; they marry

Visit to UK and Paris with Dolf

Back to NYC; worst depression

Unable to write acceptable poetry or to finish autobiography

Five months at psychiatric sanatorium

Photographed at a picnic with Dolf in Canada

Broadcasting again

The Miniver Story made by MGM, who settle her claim for damages

To England with Dolf

Agricultural tour of US with Jamie

Depression again

Cancer diagnosed; mastectomy

Her self-assessment; work-shy

Photographed in her NYC garden

Last visit to UK, with Dolf

Decline in her writing, but still enslaved by Mrs Miniver

Medical check-up; to Cape Cod; sick and incoherent

Returns to NYC; brain tumour diagnosed

Her death, 20 July 1953 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital; funeral at 5th Avenue Presbyterian Church, NYC; her ashes interred at Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire

BOOKS by Jan Struther, in chronological order:

Betsinda Dances and Other Poems, OUP

Sycamore Square and Other Verses, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, London, 1932

The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard, London, 1936

When Grandmama was Small, London, 1937, verses written by J adapted from the Swedish of Ingrid Smith; pictures by Mela Broman

Try Anything Twice: Essays and Sketches, London, 1938; articles quoted

Mrs Miniver, London, 1939; New York, 1940; many later editions; translations and editions in many countries. Columns for the Court page of The Times suggested to J by Peter Fleming; J’s invention of the name ‘Miniver’; first of J’s anonymous articles published in 1937; some articles quoted; change of style to letters from ‘Caroline’; articles collected and published in UK as a book by ‘Jan Struther’; UK reviews; UK sales; published in USA, and became Book of the Month; US reviews; US best seller

The Glass-Blower and Other Poems, London, 1940; New York, 1941

Women of Britain: Letters from England, edited and with an introduction by J, New York, 1941

A Pocketful of Pebbles, with decorations by Aldren Watson, New York, 1946 (a collection of poems, articles and speeches)

HYMNS published in Songs of Praise (enlarged edition, OUP, 1931, often reprinted). First lines: Number 63, High o’er the lonely hills; Round the earth a message runs; Sing, all ye Christian people!, When Stephen, full of power and grace; When Mary brought her treasure; Unto Mary, demon-haunted; O saint of summer, what can we bring for you?, God, whose eternal mind; Daisies are our silver; When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old; Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy; We thank you, Lord of Heaven

POEMS, individually quoted or mentioned:

‘The Accompaniment’; ‘Advice to a Future Granddaughter’; ‘All Clear’; ‘The American Way of Life’; ‘At a Dull Party’; ‘At Sea’; ‘Audit’; ‘Betsinda Dances’; ‘The Blue Peter’; ‘Body, Beware’; Cigarette advertisements; ‘Cobwebs’; ‘The Cul-de-Sac’; ‘Dedication: to A.M.G.’; ‘Dedication: to an Unknown Reader’, xiii; ‘Dialling Tones’; ‘Displaced Persons’; ‘Evening’; ‘Fidelity’; ‘Going Home’; ‘Green Warfare’; ‘High Tide’; ‘Immortality’; ‘Intimations of Immortality in Early Middle Age’; ‘Kalbshaxen (Veal Shanks)’; ‘A Londoner in New England, 1941,’; ‘Only Man Can Make an Ode’; ‘Prayer’; ‘Pome’; ‘Small Countries’; ‘Stevenson’s Speech’; ‘Thoughts after Lighting a Fire’; ‘Variation on an Old Proverb’; ‘Wartime Journey’; ‘You Need not Envy’; ‘Westbound Voyage’

UNFINISHED AND UNPUBLISHED BOOKS:

Autobiography intended to cover J’s life up to 20 years of age; commissioned by Harcourt Brace; unfinished, so advance returned to publishers

‘Cactus and Columbine’, mainly about travel in the USA, but reintroducing Mrs Miniver, to be published by Harcourt Brace

THE MGM FILMS OF MRS MINIVER (screen plays not written by J):

Mrs Miniver, MGM, 1942. Film mooted; payment to J for film rights; limited similarity to the book; progress of film production; Dunkirk scenes; scenes showing Greer Garson; publicity; opening and record run at Radio City Music Hall, NYC; US reviews; attendance figures, millionth ticket; grossed nearly $9m; opening in London, and UK reviews; success in other countries; wins Oscars

The Miniver Story, MGM, 1951. Made without J’s approval; opened in London and NYC; a flop, losing MGM $2m; they paid damages to J, who chose never to see the film

SOME TOPICS characteristic of J, or on which she expressed opinions, or experienced by her, including likes and dislikes: on going abroad; on adulthood; likes and dislikes of America; on American politics; on Anglo-American relations; on antiques; her appearance; ‘cute as a bug’; weight; at age; on art galleries; on ballet; beachcomber; bedbugs and cockroaches; bed-time; bicycling; black people; on blood sports; on books; botanist; on Tony’s business friends; camping and picnics; card games; carpentry and handicrafts; boatbuilder; Tony’s attempts; cars: her Baby Morris; journeys; on car bores; Tony’s ‘Bluebird’; her second-hand Plymouth; US gasoline rationing; on childbirth; on childhood; relationships with her children; on visiting churches; and see religion; cinema-goer; her clothes; on colonels; contraception; on country house visits; on cricket matches; dances; dirty jokes; dogs and cats; ‘dogs with friendly faces’; her kittens; on education; learning the facts of life; on fellow-guests; on flowers; food and drink mentioned; on watching games and sports; and see golf; on gardening; on genealogy; on geography; glue-making; dislike of golf and golf bores; on grammar; on grand houses; graphology; guilt at leaving England in 1940; gypsy influence; taught handwriting by her father; on Highland games; on history; holiday sulks and sourness; horses, etc.; dislike of housework and housewifery; on humour; on inanimate objects; Information, Please!; as an interior decorator; on isolationists in America; love of jazz; sympathy with the Jacobites; her jewellery; sympathy with Jews and Jewish minorities; jokes in bad taste; junk shops; loved RLS’s ‘Kidnapped’ of which she edited a version for schools in 1933; described as ‘kittenish’, ‘child-wife’; juvenile knitting; knots and splices; two fingers to ladylikeness; languages: German; Yiddish and Russian; eventual hatred of lecture tours; legal cases: her divorce; against her landlord; against MGM; love of London; her lovers (‘Friends’ with a capital F); on failed marriages; in wartime; attitude to men; money and shortage of it; moving house, ‘favorite indoor sport’; on museums; love of music; relationship with her nannie; changed attitude to the Nazis; liked being a ‘New Girl’; the New Yorker magazine; on ocean liners; on parental visits to schools and university; relationship with her parents; on party-giving and -going; ping-pong; paper-games; poacher; on poetry; her own; politically left-wing; on possessions; practical jokes; on psalmodic rhythm; Punch magazine; on racial intolerance; radios and radio-gramophones; attitude to religion; love of the Royal Tournament; use of rude words; fascination with Rural Free Delivery and US mail boxes; love of Scotland; her self-assessment; sexuality; dislike of sightseeing; and see churches; shooting with shotgun and rifle; and see blood sports; her sleeping bag; sleeplessness and sleeping pills; smoking; wrote cigarette advertisements; snake, alligator, etc. (Robert’s pets in NYC); on social class consciousness and distinctions; dislike of solitude; on sunglasses; dislike of tea; tennis in Egypt; on the theatre; The Times, London; a tomboy; her toys; liked most train journeys, train watching, and toy trains; support of war charities, etc.; ‘Winstonian’ energies; attitude to women; ‘in love with the world’; writer’s block described

Sudeley, Charles, 4th Baron 1840–1922, J’s maternal grandfather and his wife Ada, née Tollemache, 1848–1928

Sudeley, Merlin, 7th Baron, born 1939, the author’s cousin

Talbot family of Chelsea:

Anne Meriel (interior decorator, of Tite Street, born 1899, died unmarried 1979)

Evan Arthur Christopher (her younger brother, 1903–75, of Walpole Street, stockbroker)

Cynthia, his wife (Felicité Annette Cynthia, née Long, died 1985)

Temple, Shirley (Black) (born 1928, child actress and later diplomat)

Thomson, Janet (fellow pupil)

Toddington, Gloucestershire, J’s grandparents’ house

Tony, see Anthony J. O. Maxtone Graham

Townsend family, of 1 Beekman Place, New York City:

Rachel (née Maxtone Graham, J’s sister-in-law, 1897–1977)

Greenough (her husband, executive with United States Lines Inc., 1895–1962)

Anthony Maxtone Greenough (their elder son, born 1928)

David Graeme (their younger son, born 1930)

Travers, Henry (1874–1965, actor, played the station-master)

Vienna; and see Placzek family

von Ustinov, Iona ‘Klop’ (journalist, and Nadya his artist wife, of Redcliffe Gardens, parents of Peter)

Ward, Cleveland, J’s cleaner, NYC

Ward, Sir Edward, 1st Bart, KCB, KCVO (1853–1928, of Wilbraham Place, Sloane Street)

Warrack, Guy (1900–86, of Wellington Square, Chelsea, composer and conductor), and his first wife Jacynth, née Ellerton, later Mrs Donaldson-Hudson and Lady Lawrence, died 1987

Watt, A. P. Ltd, literary agents

Webb, Harry Murton, Tony’s fellow POW, of Knettishall, Diss, Norfolk

Welsh, chauffeur at Cultoquhey

West, Claudine (a screen writer of Mrs Miniver)

Wheelis, Dr Allen B. of Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire

Whitehead, ‘Frankie’ (Frances Edith Marian, of King’s Court North, King’s Road, later Lady Bowman, 1903–1992, lifelong friend, Janet’s godmother)

Whitty, Dame May, DBE (1865–1948, actress, played Lady Beldon)

Whyte, Sir (Alexander) Frederick, KCSI (1883–1970, Head of American Division, Ministry of Information, 1939–40)

Wilcoxon, Henry (1905–84, actor, played the vicar)

Willkie, Wendell, L. (1892–1944, presidential candidate)

Wimperis, Arthur (a screen writer of Mrs Miniver)

Wolff, Miss, teacher

Wright, Teresa (born 1918, played Vin Miniver’s wife)

Wyler, William (1902–81, the director of the film Mrs Miniver)

Ysenda, née Maxtone Graham, J’s sister-in-law, see Smythe

Yugoslavia