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GRUNDY, MRS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRUNDY, MRS , the name of an imaginary See also:English See also:character, who typifies the disciplinary See also:control of the conventional " proprieties " of society over conduct, the tyrannical pressure of the See also:opinion of neighbours on the acts of others. The name appears in a See also:play of See also:Thomas See also:Morton, See also:Speed the Plough (1798), in which one of the characters, See also:Dame Ashfield, continually refers to what her See also:neighbour Mrs Grundy will say as the criterion of respectability. Mrs Grundy is not a character in the play, but is a See also:kind of " Mrs See also:Harris " to Dame Ashfield.

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