These entries reveal not a political caricature of prudery and hypocrisy -- the stereotypes that subsequent generations affixed to her age -- but a high-spirited romantic.
I soon discovered others have been frustrated at how our multicultural society's rising prudery about humour has resulted in missed opportunities for building relationships.
The author's afterword to the novella is also presented, which show him to be endorsing a sort of prudery within marriage which is utterly unrealistic.
The turning-back-the-clock analogy is wrong, anyway, as social attitudes are more like a metronome, swinging from one extreme to another, from excessive licence to prudery.