Cornelia Fothergill

Also called Cornelia, Mrs Fothergill, La Fothergill

Novelist of rich goo staying at Marsham Manor, Everard's wife, haggling over her serial.

Connections

dealings

• haggles with Aunt Dahlia 3
• resembles Aunt Agatha 1
• admires Bertie Wooster 1
• is the maker of Cornelia Fothergill's serial^✦︎ 1
• is married to Everard Fothergill 1
• agrees to the Fothergill Venus^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie arrives at Marsham Manor and meets the bearded Fothergills and Cornelia, while Everard frets about a mewing cat.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham, as a large spreading woman

Talked about, but not there

1. Aunt Dahlia telephones to summon Bertie to Marsham Manor for the week-end to charm Cornelia Fothergill into selling her serial to Milady's Boudoir, hinting at a little job she wants done.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
2. Aunt Dahlia shows Bertie the Venus that Edward Fothergill painted and Everard loathes, and orders him to steal and burn it that night, a deal she has struck with Cornelia for the serial.Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham, as Cornelia
3. Bertie catches Edward Fothergill stealing back his own Venus and swears secrecy, then refuses Jeeves's plan to have him found stunned by burglars, and is promptly knocked out from behind.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham, as La Fothergill
4. Bertie wakes with a sore head to hear the gang is blamed, Cornelia is grateful and the serial is Aunt Dahlia's, and asks Jeeves to drop the eggs and omelettes.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham