Cora Bellinger

Also called Bellinger, Miss Bellinger, Cora, Miss Cora Bellinger, the Bellinger, Bellinger female

A massive, serious-minded opera student whom Tuppy hopes to marry; she cannot abide practical jokers and punches him in the eye.

Connections

dealings

• is loved by, is engaged to Tuppy Glossop 9
• gets the bird from the audience^⁂ 1
• uses the doll^✦︎ 1
• is deceived by Jeeves 1
• sings Sonny Boy^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. After lunch with the massive Cora, Tuppy reveals he means to win her by singing 'Sonny Boy' at Beefy Bingham's East End entertainment, then bolts on hearing Aunt Dahlia is coming.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as the Bellinger

Talked about, but not there

1. Tuppy Glossop calls while Bertie is singing in his bath, announces he is practically engaged to Cora Bellinger, and asks Bertie to deny the Drones practical-joke story to her over lunch.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
2. Aunt Dahlia complains that Tuppy has dropped Angela for Cora Bellinger and tells Bertie to have Jeeves break up the affair.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
3. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Miss Bellinger
4. Bertie, primed at the Goat and Grapes, scrapes through 'Sonny Boy'; Tuppy follows and is pelted off the stage with vegetables, but Cora has not yet arrived to see it.Chapter 4, the Oddfellows' Hall, as Bellinger
5. A black-eyed Tuppy drops Cora and goes back to Angela, and Jeeves reveals he tricked Cora into singing 'Sonny Boy' too, so that she got the bird and struck Tuppy, thinking he had played a practical joke on her.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Miss Bellinger
6. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat