Talk:Mrs Grundy
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"propriety" doesn't have its own article for this context
Bravo, Wikipedia! I had no idea of the long literary history. An excellent, concise, nicely documented scholarly article.
Mrs. Grundy was a familiar reference well into the nineteen seventies and a useful one. She was used much the way the term "political correctness" now is. Instead of grumbling, "Can't do it, It's not PC," people would mutter, "We can't do that. What would Mrs. Grundy say?" "Mrs. Grundy wouldn't like it. Forget it."
In fact, she may have dropped out only because the term PC more exactly expressed the new social censorship? Mrs. Grundy deserves a comeback, perhaps as Ms. Grundy? She's still out there watching and tsk tsking.Profhum (talk) 15:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Removed link to "Speed the Plow", since it went to the David Mamet play. The Thomas Morton play does not appear to have an article. Rstinejr (talk) 18:44, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
Europe?[edit]
Have removed Dostoevsky reference because, although Mrs G appears in the Penguin translation of The Idiot (p. 331), the actual Russian refers to a local analogue of Mrs G, drawn from Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov.[1]
Australia yes, US yes, but I find no evidence of Mrs G herself as a social force outside the English speaking world.