Background.
‘Miss Maria Crumpton admitted she was forty; an admission which was rendered perfectly unnecessary by the self-evident fact of her being at least fifty.” is a quotation from Sketches by Boz, Tales. Chapter 3 (Sentiment).
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces written by Charles Dickens and published as a book in 1836.
Context.
Description of Miss Maria Crumpton, one of the two unmarried sisters that run Minerva House, a finishing school for young ladies in Hammersmith.
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