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489:. In the former he describes the early twentieth century attitude of the English working class towards drunkenness: "Mrs Grundy rules as supremely over the workers as she does over the bourgeoisie; but in the case of the workers, the one thing she does not frown upon is the public house ... Mrs Grundy drew the line at spirits." In
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Although later usage positions her chiefly as a feared dispenser of disapproval, the Mrs Grundy of the play is, in Dame
Ashfield's daydreams, not so much a figure of dread as a cowed audience to the accomplishments of the Ashfield family. As the play progresses, Dame Ashfield and her comical musings
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noted of Ydgrun that "she was held to be both omnipresent and omnipotent; but she was not an elevated conception, and was sometimes both cruel and absurd". His own preference was for the small group he called High
Ydgrunites, who broadly accepted the low-norm conventions of the goddess, but were
181:, Poole wrote "Many people take the entire world to be one huge Mrs. Grundy, and, upon every act and circumstance of their lives, please, or torment themselves, according to the nature of it, by thinking of what that huge Mrs. Grundy, the World, will say about it". In 1869,
495:, on the 1st page of chapter 10, the protagonist says of his race that it's, "...sober-minded, clean-lived, and fanatically moral and which in this latter connection has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy".
171:, its new morality of decency, domesticity, serious-mindedness, propriety and community discipline on the one hand, its humbug, hypocrisy and self-deception on the other, Mrs Grundy swiftly rose to a position of censorious authority. In
565:. When first introduced, she fit the Mrs Grundy archetype well, being judgmental and old-fashioned. However, the character has been softened considerably over the years, and her current incarnation is not particularly Grundyesque.
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Ashfield's envious watchfulness, as is shown in the very first scene:
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erosion of the
Victorian moral consensus, Mrs Grundy began to lose her power, and by the 1920s she was already little more than a faded laughing-stock, being mocked for example in the advice book for teens,
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described her in his poem of that title: "High-coifed, broad-browed, aged, suave but grim, A large flat face, eyes keenly dim, staring at nothing ... on each of those chairs has gloated in righteousness".
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If you hear anyone talking about the liberties of
England (by which he means the liberties of the obscurantists, the Mrs. Grundies, the bishops, and the capitalists), watch that man. He's the enemy.
227:, the name 'Grundy' nevertheless has sound associations with underlying mental dissatisfaction as evidenced linguistically in words such as 'grumble', 'mumble', 'grunt', and 'gruntled'.
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Be quiet, woolye? aleways ding, dinging Dame Grundy into my ears — what will Mrs Grundy zay? What will Mrs Grundy think — Canst thee be quiet, let ur alone, and behave thyzel pratty?
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Canst thee tell what parson zaid? Noa — Then I'll tell thee — A' zaid that envy were as foul a weed as grows, and cankers all wholesome plants that be near it — that's what a' zaid.
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describes her as "Mrs Grundy, that amusing old lady who represents the only original form of humour that the middle classes of this country have been able to produce" (1890).
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Come, come, missus, as thee hast not the grace to thank God for prosperous times, dan't thee grumble when they be unkindly a bit.
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often refers to "Mrs Grundy" in his letters as a characterization of those who may disapprove of his friendships with children.
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What news, husband? What I always told you; that Farmer Grundy's wheat brought five shillings a quarter more than ours did.
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And I assure you, Dame Grundy's butter was quite the crack of the market.
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118:Ah! the sun seems to shine on purpose for him.
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154:And do you think I envy Mrs Grundy indeed?
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955:Forster, E. M. (1972).
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803:The Subjection of Women
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