that name: “High-coifed, broad-browed, aged, suave but grim, A large flat face, eyes keenly dim, staring at nothing...on each of those chairs has gloated in righteousness”. Aimée Crocker refers to her throughout her biography And I'd Do It Again. P. T. Barnum refers to her in the preface of his non-fiction booklet Art of Money Getting (1880). Oscar Wilde in a letter to the St. James Gazette describes her as "...Mrs Grundy, that amusing old lady who represents the only original form of humour that the middle classes of this country have been able to produce." (1890). Charles Dickens mentions her in his novel Hard Times. William Makepeace Thackeray mentions her in his novel Vanity Fair. William Gilbert refers to her in the patter song "At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention" from the second act of The Grand Duke, and in the (cut) song "Though men of rank may useless seem" for the Duke in Patience (opera). George Gissing wrote a novel which was never published and is now lost called 'Mrs Grundy's Enemies'. G. K. Chesterton mentions her in chapter III of Orthodoxy. G. K. Chesterton titled a chapter "The Humility of Mrs Grundy" in his book What's Wrong With the World. Lewis Carroll often refers to "Mrs Grundy" in his personal letters as the characterization of those who may disapprove of his friendships with children. James Joyce refers to her in the "Eumaeus" chapter of Ulysses. Gifford's Ulysses Annotated characterizes her as "the ultimate arbiter of stuffy middle-class propriety." Robert A. Heinlein also mentions her, for example, in his novels The Number of the Beast, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, Stranger in a Strange Land, and in the second intermission of Time Enough for Love. "Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite." Philip José Farmer's characters in the Riverworld series also refer to Mrs Grundy as prudishness incarnate in a negative way. Peter Fryer's book Mrs Grundy: Studies in English Prudery concerns prudish behaviour, such as the use of euphemisms for underwear. Jack London uses Mrs Grundy in his books The People of the Abyss and The Sea-Wolf. In the former he describes the early twentieth century attitude of the English working class towards drunkenness: "Mrs Grundy rules as supremely over the workers as she does over the bourgeoisie; but in the case of the workers, the one thing