Pauline Monica Mole, neé Sugden (born 14 September 1944) is mother of Adrian Mole

Adrian Mole

Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend. The character first appeared in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence...

, main character in the books of Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend

-Adrian Mole series:* The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ , her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.* The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole * The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole...

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She was brought up into a devout Christian family amongst the potato fields of Norfolk

Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, on a number of occasions Adrian describes her family as 'inbred'. She married to George Mole and from her parents' farm moved to Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, — Zouch being pronounced "Zoosh" — often shortened to Ashby, is a small market town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England, within the National Forest. It is twinned with Pithiviers in north-central France....

. When she was 22, she gave a birth to Adrian Albert Mole, who is her and George's first child. When she gave a birth to Rosie

Rosie Mole

Rosie Germaine Mole is a fictional character in Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series. Rosie is Adrian's sister, and first appears in the book The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. She is very close to her brother Adrian...

, she wanted to give her the name 'Christabel'. But, she decided on 'Rosie Germaine' - Rosie because it's pretty and modern, and Germaine because of Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....

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Pauline had a relationship with Ivan Braithwaite but she returned to George after Ivan's death. In Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel . It is set in 2002/3 and Adrian is 33¾ years of age...

, she and George are trying to rebuild an old house to their new home. Mysterious guy, 'the Animal' is helping them.

Pauline as a character

Pauline is a feminist, her idol is Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century....

 and her favorite book is The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch

The Female Eunuch is a book first published in 1970 that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. The author, Germaine Greer, became well known in broadcast media of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and her home of Australia...

. She is a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 supporter, and she doesn't like Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

. She reads The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

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