Mrs Twit – first name unknown – has a ‘fearful ugliness’. “‘At 50, everyone has the face they deserve.’ This formulation, proposed by George Orwell shortly before his death in 1949, is the blueprint for the story of Mrs Twit. “I remember being so relieved when Muggle-Wump turned the tables on this nasty pair and came up with this genius plan to teach them a lesson.” Mrs Twit Mr and Mrs Twit were the first ‘naughty’ characters I’d come across in a book as a child and I was fascinated by them (particularly as my brother and I were also prone to playing tricks on each other at the time – although not quite as vile!). “My favourite has to be Muggle-Wump in The Twits. “It’s the first thing I think of whenever I meet a man with a particularly bushy beard (and nowadays, there are quite a lot of them around).” Muggle-Wump But the image of him picking Cornflakes out of his beard is one that has stayed in my mind ever since I was seven. Yes, he is nasty, hides frogs in his wife’s bed and beats her with a cane. “Every young girl dreams of being Matilda, but the Roald Dahl character that has stayed with me most into adulthood is Mr Twit.
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