"Giving a party is very like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion, and once you have begun it it is almost impossible to stop. To the Virago edition of Try Anything Twice, London, 1990.Ĭopyright, Valerie Grove reproduced here with her kind permission. As far as I know, other names were invented, though in many cases they were based on real people. Holiday companions, "A", "E" and "C", are references to the Talbot family–Anne, her brother Evan, and his wife Cynthia. In some of the Try Anything Twice articles, the author likewise draws partly on fact and partly on fiction, calling her husband "T" and their children Andrew, Robina and Benjie. Ysenda's book discusses the extent to which the fictitious Minivers and their three children Vin, Judy and Toby may be regarded as representing the true Tony and Joyce Maxtone Graham and their similarly-aged children Jamie, Janet and Robert. This date coincides with the 100th anniversary of Jan Struther's birth, and with publication of The Real Mrs Miniver–Jan Struther's Story by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, her grand-daughter (London, John Murray). This Internet edition of the complete book was put on line in 2001. A new edition of Try Anything Twice was published in London by Virago Press in 1990, with an Introduction by Valerie Grove (reprinted here with her kind permission) but shortened by omitting thirteen of the original essays. Next, they were reprinted in New York by Harcourt Brace in 1946 in a collection of Jan Struther's poetry and prose called A Pocketful of Pebbles. They were first published in book form in London in 1938 by Chatto & Windus, under the title Try Anything Twice.
These articles appeared in the 1920s and 1930s in The Spectator, The New Statesman, Punch, and other journals.
It is illegal to reproduce this work without permission.īy the author's son, Robert Maxtone Graham, 2001. This authorised internet edition was published with the permission of the Maxtone Graham family, and the assistance of Joyce Maxtone Graham's son, Robert Maxtone Graham, in 2001.
Miniver Copyright, the Estate of Jan Struther, 1938.
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