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MRS GRUNDY

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MRS

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GRUNDY  , the name of an imaginary
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English
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character, who typifies the disciplinary
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control of the conventional " proprieties " of society over conduct, the tyrannical pressure of the
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opinion of neighbours on the acts of others . The name appears in a
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play of
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Thomas
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Morton,
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Speed the Plough (1798), in which one of the characters,
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Dame Ashfield, continually refers to what her
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neighbour Mrs
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Grundy will say as the criterion of respectability . Mrs Grundy is not a character in the play, but is a
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kind of " Mrs
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Harris " to Dame Ashfield .

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