Mrs. Grundy
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Many scientists engaged in the controversy between biology and Mrs. Grundy over Darwin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good half of the letters in the volume are concerned with the difficulties of reconstructing Jezebel in the image of Mrs. Grundy.
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For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior.
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Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as ‘a nonsensical business’.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
