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Maiden Aunt

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48 feature instances
67 referencing feature instances

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Maiden Aunt	label	Maiden Aunt
Maiden Aunt	page	MaidenAunt
Maiden Aunt	comment	She is your favourite elderly relative. Never married, never thought about marrying, never had a boyfriend or a lover—or at least if she did you don't know about it. She is grey-haired, old-fashioned, conservative, prim, proper, prudish, strait-laced, and disapproving of anything new-fangled. She wears basic black with lace at the collar and cuffs and when she goes out she puts on a hat that is no longer fashionable. But she dotes on her nieces and nephews, and fusses over the local parson and the friendly neighborhood policeman. Although unmarried elderly women have always existed, the Maiden Aunt as a trope first arose in the 1880s. Historically, women had shorter lifespans than men because of the dangers of childbirth; many men married more than once, meaning that any woman who didn't marry at a young age had a good chance of marrying later on. But in the mid-Victorian era women's life expectancies increased due to advances in modern medicine while men's lifespans decreased (or at least didn’t go up as quickly), partly due to civilian conscription during wartime and—as we know now—partly due to increasing use of tobacco. Suddenly there were myriads, even millions of women who had no chance of marrying and, unlike unmarried men, had little chance of immigrating to a place where they could find a spouse. Decades later, these women reached old age and became known as maiden aunts. They were especially thick on the ground in the US in the 1900-1930 period and in the Commonwealth in the 1950-1980 period—these were the women whose potential husbands died in The American Civil War and in World War I, respectively. In the 1920s they were often known as "Victorian aunts", because they had grown up in (and for the most part never quite left) the Victorian era. Often also called "spinsters" and "old maids", although the latter term is usually discredited as offensive nowadays. If you were born in The '60s you may remember how incredibly common they were, both in fiction and in Real Life. Of course, many real-life women remained unmarried for reasons other than the one stated above. Some were lesbians, some were asexual or aromantic, some preferred a career to marriage, some gave up the chance of marriage to look after aging parents, and some simply didn't want the bother of a husband and family. Some are kindly and sweet, some are bitter and angry, some are in a Cloudcuckooland. Often played straight in mysteries and for laughs in comedies. There aren't many subversions out there—younger audiences are usually squicked by any hint of sexuality in an older woman. A type of Old Maid. May be a Moral Guardian or a Nosy Neighbor (or both). Compare Little Old Lady Investigates. Comic book maiden aunts may be susceptible to Nephewism.
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Maiden Aunt / int_135f97c9	comment	In Emma, Miss Bates is a resident spinster who never married and there isn't any mention of a romantic past. She's popular with people, takes care of her old widowed mother, and adores her niece Jane Fairfax who is an orphan, but was adopted by her late father's friend.
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Maiden Aunt / int_15d05f51	comment	The Hardy Boys have Aunt Gertrude, a classic example of the trope. She often scolds the Hardys for their dangerous exploits while secretly cheering them on, and occasionally offers up some wisdom that gives them a hint of what direction to go next.
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Maiden Aunt / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Aunt Harriet on the 1960s Batman (1966) live-action program.
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Maiden Aunt / int_1c25dba1	comment	Sialeeds and Haswar in Suikoden V are this to the Prince, swearing off getting married and having children to avoid the possibility of a repeat of the devastating Succession Crisis from just the last generation. After the events of the game, however, Haswar goes and gets married after noting that she, the prince and Lymsleia are all that remains of their family.
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Maiden Aunt / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Patty and Selma Bouvier were single at first and played aunts to the Simpson kids, though none of them were really fond of them. Selma ultimately had multiple marriages, none of which lasted very long. Patty apparently lived a life of self-imposed celibacy (despite dating Skinner for a while), but in a later episode came out of the closet as a lesbian and nearly married before finding out her would-be bride was a man in drag. Great Aunt Gladys, Marge's aunt, seems to fill this trope. In her video will, she warns Patty and Selma about "not Dying Alone," and gives them her old grandfather clock.
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Maiden Aunt / int_2c9c83c	comment	In Poldark, Agatha Poldark has been the family's Maiden Aunt for all her ninety-plus years of life. Her niece Verity appears destined for a similar fate at first, mostly because the other family members depend on her people-pleasing nature and don't wish for her to leave the family home. She finally breaks free by marrying Captain Andrew Blamey despite her family's strong and vocal objections to his checkered past.
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Maiden Aunt / int_331ed304	comment	In the Sweet Valley High novel The Wakefields of Sweet Valley, Ted Wakefield thinks he's being raised by one of these because his parents died in a train crash, but the reader knows that she actually is his mother and concocted the story to hide the fact that he's illegitimate.
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Maiden Aunt / int_3f029847	comment	The books' most recent adaptation, Anne with an E establishes Josephine as a lesbian and as a far more liberal and bohemian character than she was in the books.
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Maiden Aunt / int_3f2a8f6c	comment	Adelheid von Stechlin is this to Woldemar in Der Stechlin.
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Maiden Aunt / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Slappy Squirrel is Skippy's aunt, and she doesn't have a spouse or a child.
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Maiden Aunt / int_46527a28	comment	In The Heiress, Catherine ends up as a Maiden Aunt, doting on the children of her cousin Marian, who call her "Aunt Catherine".
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Maiden Aunt / int_468bebb0	comment	Granny Weatherwax of Discworld plays this to the whole population of her home village of Bad Ass. She's by far the most suspicious and conservative of the witches seen, as well as one of the most powerful, and her title of "Granny" is definitely only honorary, considering that she can tame unicorns.
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Maiden Aunt / int_4aa602ab	comment	In Four Daughters, Aunt Etta Lemp lives with her brother Adam and looks after Adam's titular four daughters. Made even odder in that no explanation is given for the whereabouts of Adam's wife.
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Maiden Aunt / int_4acbcaf	comment	The title character in Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame is a notable subversion of the trope. Mame is a lot of things but 'maidenly' is not among them.
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Maiden Aunt / int_4d04208	comment	Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show.
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Maiden Aunt / int_4e9e9863	comment	Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha Brewster in the play and movie Arsenic and Old Lace. Their special cordial is extremely special.
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Maiden Aunt / int_5960b219	comment	In The Lady of Rivers and Storms, Celia Tully became this to Hoster Tully and his brother Brynden. After Prince Jaehaerys Targaryen (later King Jaehaerys II) scorned his betrothed Celia by marrying his sister Shaera, Celia wound up never finding another man to marry and bore the brunt of the blame from her father. Her fate casts a long shadow over Lysa and her main focus in life is not winding up like her.
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Maiden Aunt / int_5d9e28cc	comment	Charley's Aunt gets a lot of mileage from this trope. Donna Lucia (although a widow, rather than never having married) is presumed by all five of the youngsters to be one, although that's because they've never met her. (She isn't, by a long shot.) Babbs plays her as one while masquerading as her. Mr. Spettigue expected her to be one, so he never even considers that there might be an imposture going on. The real Donna Lucia takes full advantage of it.
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Maiden Aunt / int_63e46d83	comment	The Upshaws has an updated version of the trope in Lucretia. When her little sister Regina got pregnant in high school, Lucretia dropped out of college and broke up with her world-traveling boyfriend to take care of her sister and new baby nephew. Lucretia has dated since then, but never seriously. She never married or had children of her own, and instead devoted herself to being the backstop keeping Regina's family safe. The resulting family dynamics can be messy. In a practical sense, this is Lucretia's family — this is the family she's spent decades taking care of; she's their financial safety net; she practically raised her nephew Bernard. But it's not officially her family, and this changes how her contributions are viewed. For example: Money. If this were her family, providing financially would just be providing for her family, not worth commenting on. Because it's not, providing financially is alternatingly seen as very charitable, or a controlling-the-purse-strings power move. In a fight between the sisters, this gets pulled out:
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Maiden Aunt / int_6cb2d709	comment	Superficially following the schoolmarm stereotype is Harry Potter's Dolores Umbridge. When she's introduced, she's actually described as looking like "somebody's maiden aunt" and she affects the mannerisms of one, including an apparent love of cats. But it's only a thin veneer hiding a power-hungry sadist.
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Maiden Aunt / int_6f76d71a	comment	Mrs. Crumplebottom from The Sims Specifically, Miss Crumplebottom in The Sims, who is the unmarried aunt of Mortimer Goth and sister to Cornelia Goth, though she is never seen interacting with her family
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Maiden Aunt / int_75a64d7d	comment	Alluded to in an episode of Fuller House. Stephanie, seeing both DJ and Kimmy sporting post-kiss goofy grins while herself sorting socks, comments with this trope almost verbatim. Although she being 35 is in no way or shape being old, and she is definitely not a maiden, just haven't been married yet. She doesn't have children but turns out to mostly be because she can't.
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Maiden Aunt / int_8529459f	comment	Doña Clotilde in El Chavo del ocho is a surprisingly more sexual (or at least romantic) take on this, but her attempts of "seduction" (almost always involving hugging or bringing food) always fail with her intended target, and she is quite the traditionalist anyway.
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Maiden Aunt / int_8667f7b0	comment	Charles Godfrey's sisters Cissy and Dolly are portrayed as this in Dad's Army. Although they have no nieces or nephews, they are nonetheless very nurturing, with Dolly's famous "upside-down cakes" mentioned in many episodes.
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Maiden Aunt / int_9e9b57f1	comment	In The Sorrows of Satan, Lady Sibyl's aunt Charlotte never married, and instead lives with the family to help care for Sibyl's mother, who was paralyzed by strokes.
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Maiden Aunt / int_a655465b	comment	In the Colleen McCullough novel The Touch, the protagonist looks back over her 20-year loveless marriage and decides it was still better than being a maiden aunt in her native Scotland.
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Maiden Aunt / int_b22b3acd	comment	Matilda in The Full Matilda, but without the caring part. If anything she's more of a Deadpan Snarker. The book deconstructs her reasons for being one.
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Maiden Aunt / int_b2c187a7	comment	The Magician's Nephew: The titular magician lives with his sister, Digory's Aunt Letty. While somewhat fitting the trope, she gets a surprisingly fun moment when she sees the dimension-hopping Queen Jadis, assumes that she's a drunk circus performer and tells her off. Jadis throws her across the room, but Letty (who was fortunate enough to land on a mattress) just gets up and calls the police.
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Maiden Aunt / int_b3bb3618	comment	Miss Emily and Miss Mamie Baldwin on The Waltons.
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Maiden Aunt / int_b96adef8	comment	In the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman episode that featured an appearance by Walt Whitman, Grace is the only character who isn't bothered by his rumored homosexuality, stating that she grew up in New Orleans, where, "there were all kinds of folks. Plenty of families had their bachelor uncles and maiden aunties", implying that the term may have also been a euphemism for a lesbian.
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Maiden Aunt / int_b9feaac4	comment	The main character's aunt in Hausu due to her fiance being drafted to fight in World War II and dying in battle.
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Maiden Aunt / int_ba81b6a2	comment	Rose's great-aunts Peace and Plenty in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom are this. No reason is ever given for why Plenty didn't marry, but it's explained that Peace was Widowed at the Wedding and she never recovered from the shock. The trope is actually mentioned in the narrative, pointing out that sometimes, nieces and nephews get excellent surrogate parents in "bachelor uncles and maiden aunts." This makes sense, since protagonist Rose is now being raised by her bachelor uncle with the help of his own maiden aunts.
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Maiden Aunt / int_bb0cde7f	comment	Anchors Aweigh has Aunt Susie, who is not old but has a young nephew who she takes care of.
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Maiden Aunt / int_bc07b984	comment	In The French Lieutenant's Woman, Aunt Tranter is an old maid, though she's referred to as Mrs. Tranter (at the time, it was common to refer to unmarried women past a certain age as Mrs. as a courtesy), who is a kindly woman and satisfied with her lot in life. She adores her niece Ernestina and she's a very good mistress to her servants. She's particularly fond of and even motherly to Mary (her servant girl).
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Maiden Aunt / int_bc18062d	comment	Anne of Green Gables features a few of these, including Diana's aunt Josephine (who seems at first austere and aloof but eventually dotes on Anne) and Priscilla's aunt Jamesina. The characters of Lavender Lewis and Janet Sweet first appear to be more examples of this trope but eventually subvert it by marrying late in life. The books' most recent adaptation, Anne with an E establishes Josephine as a lesbian and as a far more liberal and bohemian character than she was in the books.
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Maiden Aunt / int_cbf8328c	comment	Juliana Tesman in Hedda Gabler.
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Maiden Aunt / int_cc3bd9ee	comment	Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) had Aunt Imogen. She wasn't so much "single" as "engaged to a prince who doesn't exist".
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Maiden Aunt / int_ccc80720	comment	In My Life as a Teenage Robot, Wisteria is this to Jenny, while Nora is this to Glenn.
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Maiden Aunt / int_d9d745ed	comment	Gwen's great aunt Madeleine in The Ruby Red Trilogy who lives in the Multigenerational Household that's headed by her sister-in-law and Gwen's grandmother Lady Arista.
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Maiden Aunt / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra has Kya, who never married and seemingly never wanted to, and is much beloved by her brother's children; unlike most examples, she's a Cool Old Lady, described by Word of God as "kind of a hippie" and can kick butt if necessary. Given both certain other revelations the creators made about her and her Commitment Issues, there's a pretty good reason she never married and never wanted to.
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Maiden Aunt / int_df93202a	comment	Alison's House: Aunt Agatha never married and never even left home. Her sole concern is protecting the memory of her sister Alison, a Captain Ersatz of Emily Dickinson who gained posthumous fame as a poet.
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Maiden Aunt / int_e5a61646	comment	In the Family Tree Series Abby's youngest sister Adele never gets married or has children, unlike her older sisters Rose and Abby. Instead she serves as the Cool Aunt to Abby's daughter Dana—letting her move in after she wants to return to New York City—and later, grandniece, Francie. She is diagnosed with breast cancer in the early 1980s and eventually dies of it.
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Maiden Aunt / int_e6ef8ea2	comment	The Nutcracker features two Maiden Aunt characters.
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Maiden Aunt / int_f0529579	comment	Spider-Man: Aunt May fits parts of this trope, though she's a widow and went back to dating after Uncle Ben died. She was with Edwin Jarvis for a while, but then it turns out that that Jarvis ain't Jarvis. You're a Parker, May—your love life's gonna be chaos, it's the law! She's more of a Maiden Aunt in the newspaper comics than in the comic books. She does end up dating once more and even remarrying... to J. Jonah Jameson's father. JJJ and Peter Parker were more than a little shocked by it. Anna Watson, MJ's aunt and May's best friend, is a Maiden Aunt to a certain extent as well (or at least the favorite relative and unmarried part).
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Maiden Aunt / int_f57525ab	comment	When George Bailey gets the chance to find out how the world would have turned out if he'd never been born, he finds that his wife Mary had become a bitter, unhappy Maiden Aunt.
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Maiden Aunt / int_f57525ab	featureConfidence	1.0
It's a Wonderful Life	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_f57525ab
Maiden Aunt / int_f6fe1bfc	type	Maiden Aunt
Maiden Aunt / int_f6fe1bfc	comment	Hilda and Zelda of Sabrina the Teenage Witch come off this way, despite not being as old as this trope usually implies (or at least, not looking as old). Zelda was briefly married back in the Middle Ages, while Hilda leaves the show after getting hitched in the later seasons.
Maiden Aunt / int_f6fe1bfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Maiden Aunt / int_f6fe1bfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Sabrina the Teenage Witch	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_f6fe1bfc
Maiden Aunt / int_fb0b1c34	type	Maiden Aunt
Maiden Aunt / int_fb0b1c34	comment	The Anderssons. Ida Sofia is the proper och straight-laced aunt/great-aunt, who has no interest in men and no kids. She has five nieces and two nephews though, and she will do anything for them. There is more to her than what you might believe though. Despite how prudish she might appear (she is notably very keen on criticizing her sister Greta for being too frivolous), she's really not conservative politically. The reason why she has no interest in men becomes clear too: it is revealed that she "prefers women".
Maiden Aunt / int_fb0b1c34	featureApplicability	1.0
Maiden Aunt / int_fb0b1c34	featureConfidence	1.0
The Anderssons	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_fb0b1c34
Maiden Aunt / int_fda9c8b	type	Maiden Aunt
Maiden Aunt / int_fda9c8b	comment	On Downton Abbey, Lady Edith thinks this will be her fate after getting jilted at the altar by much older Sir Anthony, but she's very unsatisfied with this prospect. She's considered the Plain Jane of the family, while her two sisters are great beauties, popular with gentlemen and people in general and constantly praised by their parents, while Edith is pitied even by the servants at the Abbey. She eventually finds purpose in life (journalism and women's suffrage) and she has other suitors and finds love.
Maiden Aunt / int_fda9c8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Maiden Aunt / int_fda9c8b	featureConfidence	1.0
Downton Abbey	hasFeature	Maiden Aunt / int_fda9c8b

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Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits
Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	Always Female
Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	Characters as Device
Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	Elders
Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	Generational Tropes
Maiden Aunt	processingCategory2	The Singles Index
Princess Sarah / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Jeremiah (Comic Book) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Nancy (Comic Strip) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Daria in Morrowind (Fanfic) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Moxxie Morningstar (Fanfic) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Lady of Rivers and Storms (Fanfic) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
A Christmas Horror Story / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Alice in Wonderland (2010) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Anchors Aweigh / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Doctor in Distress (1963) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
8 Women / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
It's a Wonderful Life / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Little Women (1933) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Loose Ankles / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Night Song / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Trouble with Harry / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
A Corner of the Universe / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
American Girls: Josefina / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Anne of Green Gables / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Auntie Mame / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Crooked House / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Der Stechlin / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Dubliners / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Eight Cousins / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Evensong / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Family Tree Series / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Miss Marple / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Pollyanna / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Tender Is the Night / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Confessions of Nat Turner / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The French Lieutenant's Woman / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The House of the Spirits / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Monk / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Railway Children / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Spectre Bridegroom (1819) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Story Girl / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Touch / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Ultimate Adventure (1939) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Washington Square / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
ElChavoDelOcho	seeAlso	Maiden Aunt
CumberholmesRolePlayTwitterCommunity	seeAlso	Maiden Aunt
Delicious Friends (Roleplay) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Anne with an E / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Cranford / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Dark Shadows / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
El Chavo del ocho / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Roseanne / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Gilded Age / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Upshaws / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Alison's House (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Arsenic and Old Lace (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Charley's Aunt (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Hedda Gabler (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Miracle Worker (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Old Maid (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
The Pillars of Society (Theatre) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Shadow of the Comet (Video Game) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Melody (Visual Novel) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Jibi Eopseo (Webcomic) / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Remember the Night / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt

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