'I wonder whether it's too much to hope that afterwards, when all the horrors are over, we shall be able to conjure up again the feelings of these first few weeks, and somehow rebuild our peace-time world' Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in the The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday events of a middle-class Chelsea family Mrs Miniver enchanted the country with her sympathy and affectionate humour