MRS. GRUNDY, A HISTORY OF FOUR CENTURIES OF MORALS... [First Edn.]

by Markun, Leo

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N.Y.:: Appleton,, 1930. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; card pocket removed; no spine marks/label; spine faded; cover tips worn; otherwise good.. index, Profuse b&w drawings and caricatures. `What will Mrs. Grundy think?' began life in Thomas Morton's comedy some two centuries ago; now it is synonymous with arbiters of public moral standards in literature, dress, dance, motion pictures, temperance, religious observances, teaching controversial subjects, social relationships, etc. ||| Book reviewers say such books `summarize centuries of immoral history, and the efforts of Puritan and reformer to combat it...' Then, most added (in just about these words)--`the authors sympathize much more with the sinners than with their persecutors.' ||| The more things change...