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From Brewer's Directory of Colonial Personages, 12th Edition:

Miss Influenza Codswallop (B.A., U.E.L., D.G., P.R.U.D.E.) is a distressed gentlewoman during the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, residing in a secluded outpost in the Dominion of Canada. Life is difficult here, far from the luxuries of civilized London, but with perseverence and a sort of brute cunning she manages to make do. Exactly what circumstances led to her taking up residence in such a desolate area are shrouded in mystery, and the topic of much speculation amongst those who have no better employment do than to gossip about their betters. Little is known of her family, although she has been known to refer to a Great-Aunt Cholera and distant twin cousins Dyspepsia and Dysentery on the maternal side, and an ancestor by name of Captain Gunsel Codswallop on the paternal, who is said to have both distinguished and extinguished himself during the Battle of Trafalgar.

In some respects, Miss Codswallop is a thoroughly modern woman of strong opinions, eschewing a corset (except on formal occasions, of course), following the latest scientific developments, and even riding a velocipede. Despite these traits, however, her morals and sense of public decency remain firmly rooted in the 19th century. Miss Codswallop has little patience for radicals, roundheels, or reprobates, and has been known to lay into such characters with an acid tongue. Some of her victims have complained that Miss Codswallop is not merely a prude but also a hypocrite, virago, and thoroughly unpleasant person; this is not entirely inaccurate, and even her supporters sometimes find it difficult to countenance her behaviour.

Miss Codswallop is the acting Lady President of the Heart's Ease Guild of Distressed Gentlewomen, an association of ladies with good upbringings but meager resources who meet every second Sunday of every second month at a local teahouse to drink tea, eat dainty pastries, and tsk disapprovingly about the Modern State of Affairs.