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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
The author of the article can't be serious when he says Crompton wasn't aware of what he was writing. He must have been making a (rather misogynistic and nasty) joke at the expense of some real maiden aunt's expense, just that, being "a blameless ex-classics teacher" writing a book, he couldn't very well use the same language as the lads down at the pub, could he? If Crompton really didn't realize what he was writing, Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with him...
ETA: I really like "Facsimilist"...
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Richmal Crompton was a woman. Who never married.
She was an aunt and a great-aunt so maybe she was the 'real maiden aunt' she was writing about? And playing up to the fact that maiden aunts (and daughters of clergy) would be completely innocent of any other meanings?
