Jan Struther

Mrs. Miniver Jan Struther

Jan Struther was asked to contribute a series imagining the life of an "ordinary" woman, although her definition of "ordinary" was doubtless a reflection of her own background. Mrs Miniver has both a town and a country house, with servants in both. Her eldest boy is at Eton, and every August she motors up to Scotland for the grouse-shooting season (or should that be "grice-shooting"?) In other words, she lives a lifestyle that was representative of a tiny minority in 1930s Britain.