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taskmaster
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A witheringly critical taskmistress with her students (and easily threatened to the point of cruelly sabotaging ones who show more talent than she does), Erika seems every bit the bitter, brainy spinster.
Martha is a woman who is 6 foot 5, who is a control freak, who is a real taskmistress.
It could also be one of the other British warhorses referencing their earlier triumphs here, such as Maggie Smith's brittle taskmistress or Richard Harris' hairily Arthurian headmaster.
 
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