英语词汇mrs grundy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

And more of Mrs. Grundy. These lines from Frederick Locker-Lampson’s poem “The Jest- er” (1857) were inspired by a character in British playwright Thomas Morton’s comedy Speed the Plough, first staged at Lon- don’s Covent Garden in 1800. Actually Mrs. Grundy is some- thing less than a character, for she never appears on stage and is never described physically. She is the epitome of propriety, the narrow-minded, straitlaced neighbor of Farmer Ashfield and Dame Ashfield, his wife, who is obsessed with Mrs. Grundy’s opinion of things. “What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?” is on Dame Ashfield’s lips so often that the words became proverbial for “What will that straitlaced neigh- bor say? What will the neighbors think?” and Mrs. Grundy herself became a symbol of prudish propriety or social conven- tion. Dickens’s Mrs. Harris, the mythical friend of Sara Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) is a similar character. See box and cox.

词汇	mrs grundy
词源	Mrs. Grundy. They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, And go to sleep on Sunday— And many are afraid of God— And more of Mrs. Grundy. These lines from Frederick Locker-Lampson’s poem “The Jest- er” (1857) were inspired by a character in British playwright Thomas Morton’s comedy Speed the Plough, first staged at Lon- don’s Covent Garden in 1800. Actually Mrs. Grundy is some- thing less than a character, for she never appears on stage and is never described physically. She is the epitome of propriety, the narrow-minded, straitlaced neighbor of Farmer Ashfield and Dame Ashfield, his wife, who is obsessed with Mrs. Grundy’s opinion of things. “What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?” is on Dame Ashfield’s lips so often that the words became proverbial for “What will that straitlaced neigh- bor say? What will the neighbors think?” and Mrs. Grundy herself became a symbol of prudish propriety or social conven- tion. Dickens’s Mrs. Harris, the mythical friend of Sara Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) is a similar character. See box and cox.
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