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Mrs. GrundyMrs. Grundy is the personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety (from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough, which appeared in 1798). (In modern British usage, she is Mrs Grundy; by contemporary rules of punctuation of 1798, still prevailing in North America today, she is Mrs. Grundy.)
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