she does not frown upon is the public house ... Mrs Grundy drew the line at spirits." In The Sea-Wolf, on the 1st page of chapter 10, the protagonist says of his race that it's, "...sober-minded, clean-lived, and fanatically moral and which in this latter connection has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy". Mohandas Gandhi refers to Mrs. Grundy as an unsuitable reason to end his *brahmacharya* experiment. Louisa May Alcott alludes to Mrs Grundy in her book Little Women when speaking of the changes Laurie undergoes as a result of Amy's admonitions to him (1868). Martin Seymour-Smith refers to Mrs Grundy throughout his biography of Thomas Hardy, noting the writer’s struggles with what he called “an unexpected Grundian cloud… ‘excessive prudery’”. Thomas Hardy disparages the "Grundyist" in his essay "Candour in English Fiction" (1890). Walter Lippmann dismisses the "exploded pretensions of Mr and Mrs Grundy" in his A Preface to Politics (1913). On the television show Absolutely Fabulous, the prudish Saffron is called a Mrs Grundy by Patsy, a hedonist. A long-time character in Archie Comics is the teacher Miss Grundy. When first introduced, she fit the Mrs Grundy archetype well, being judgmental and old-fashioned. However, the character has been softened considerably over the years, and her current incarnation is not particularly Grundyesque. P G Wodehouse's lyrics to the song "Till the Clouds Roll By" from the musical Oh Boy! contain the line "What would Missus Grundy say?" in Verse 1. H. G. Wells's character Ewart in the novel Tono-Bungay, during a long dialogue about the Grundys says, "There's no Mrs Grundy." (book 1 chapter 4, section iii) Vladimir Nabokov refers to Mrs Grundy in his novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941). Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy refer to "Mrs Grundy" in Chapter 12 of The Ethical Slut (2nd Edition, 2009). Harry Turtledove refer to "Mrs Grundy" in Chapter 3 of Colonization: Down to Earth. E. M. Forster - The Clever Lady says "If it is Mrs Grundy who is troubling you..." in Chapter 2 of A Room with a View, and "Grundyism" generally in Two Cheers for Democracy''. Patrick O'Brian in "Treason's Harbour" describes Jack Aubrey's wife as "...completely different. She was not a prude, and she cared no more for Mrs Grundy than Diana..." Vesta Tilley's song 'Bazaar Maids' refers to all the pretty, witty girls being 'under Mother Grundy's