RARE Vintage 1966 Mrs Grundy's Motto Sandyval Pin Button Pinback Sepia 1.75"

RARE Vintage 1966 Mrs Grundy's Motto Sandyval Pin Button Pinback Sepia 1.75"

Approx. 1.75" diameter

Check out history from the Busy Beaver Button Museum on this pin below:

Mrs. Grundy originally appeared in 1798 as a character in the play “Speed the Plough" by Thomas Morton. The play is set in a rural English village and is about a family of farmers, the Ashfield’s. Sir Philip Blandford plans to evict them, but it is soon revealed that their son, Henry, is actually the illegitimate son of Sir Philip, resolving the conflict and securing Henry as the rightful heir to Sir Phillip’s estate. Throughout the play, Henry’s mother, Dame Ashfield, grows increasingly concerned with the opinion of their neighbor, Mrs. Grundy, and continuously asks herself and others, “What would Mrs. Grundy say?" Mrs. Grundy herself never actually appears throughout the entirety of the play and only exists in Dame Ashfield’s anxious questioning. Mrs. Grundy becomes an unseen character symbolizing societal pres