Roald Dahl's run-in with her and a dead mouse as a boy inspired some of his most horrible characters but, as his centenary is celebrated across the country, who was the infamous Mrs Pratchett?

Roald Dahl's original sketches, created for his memoir, will be sold at auction after being found in an envelope. Dahl, who was born in the Cardiff suburb of Llandaff, produced the sketches in black ...

The fabled Mrs Pratchett was immortalised by Roald Dahl as "a small skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip, little piggy eyes and a mouth as sour as green gooseberry".

Drawings by Roald Dahl for memoir Boy to be sold at auction. Sarah Ward, PA Scotland. 15 June 2025 at 7:01 pm. Copied; ... Mrs Pratchett, by putting a dead mouse in a gobstopper jar.

Roald Dahl's run-in with her and a dead mouse as a boy inspired some of his most horrible characters, but who was the infamous Mrs Pratchett?

Specialist Dominic Somerville-Brown with the production archive for Roald Dahl’s memoir Boy (Stewart Attwood/PA Wire) ... Mrs Pratchett, by putting a dead mouse in a gobstopper jar.

The sketches form part of an archive expected to fetch up to £30,000.

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