Rosie Mole Rosie Mole Rosie Germaine Mole is a fictional character in Sue Townsend's "Adrian Mole" series. Rosie is Adrian's half-sister, and first appears in the book "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". She is very close to her brother Adrian. He thinks that Rosie is the only member of his family who really understands him. Rosie was born during the events of the second Adrian Mole novel, "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole". Her birth occurs in Royal Hospital in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. Her mother is Pauline Sugden-Mole (1944) and her father is Mr. Lucas. She has a grandmother and grandfather
The Diary of a Nobody more than 15 million copies in 40 countries. In the 1990s the satirical magazine "Private Eye" lampooned John Major, British prime minister 1990–97, in "The Secret Diary of John Major aged 47", a hybrid of the Adrian Mole diaries with "The Diary of a Nobody", which made much fun of Major's lower-middle class origins. The social historian James Hammerton defines "Pooterism" as "the dependent weakness and inflated social pretension of white-collar workers, constructed in the workplace but expressed just as powerfully at home". Jon Wilde of "The Guardian" observes this characteristic in a number of British TV comedy creations of