Tant’ Sannie in African Farm, Mrs. Snappercaps in Undine, Mrs. Drummond and Veronica Grey in From Man to Man, for instance, oppress Lyndall, Undine, and Bertie quite as effectively as any men, and the gossipy Mrs. Goodman and Miss Mell (in Undine) are the very models of self-righteous hypocrites one would expect from stereotypical misogynist writing.2 Lyndall’s last landlady, too, treats.