 Orton created the second self Edna Welthorpe, an elderly theatre snob, whom he later revived to stir controversy over his plays.Orton chose the name as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's archetypal playgoer Aunt Edna.From January 1959, Orton and Halliwell began surreptitiously to remove books from several local public libraries and modify the cover art or the blurbs before returning them.