The Wooster Papers

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Florence Craye

Also called Florence, Lady Florence, Lady Florence Craye, Matilda Bott, Craye Ordinaries, the woman I loved, old Worplesdon’s daughter, Craye

Lady Florence Craye, Bertie's imperious fiancée, who sets him to improving books and to stealing his uncle's memoirs.

In each book 5 books
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Lady Florence Craye, Bertie's imperious fiancée, who sets him to improving books and to stealing his uncle's memoirs.
  • In Joy in the Morning
    Lady Florence, Uncle Percy's intellectual daughter and author of Spindrift, engaged to Stilton, then again to Bertie, then back to Stilton.
  • In The Mating Season
    Bertie's former fiancée, who took him to Russian plays to improve his soul.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Lady Florence Craye, Lord Worplesdon's intellectual daughter and author of Spindrift; engaged to Stilton, she breaks with him, takes Bertie's arrival in her room as romance and announces she will marry him, then throws him over for Percy.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Bertie's bossy intellectual cousin and ex-fiancée, now engaged to Ginger; she drops him, proposes to Bertie and drops him too.

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Scenes they are in

Carry On, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. Florence makes Bertie promise to steal and destroy his uncle’s scandalous memoirs.Chapter 1, the smoking-room, as Florence
  2. Willoughby announces the manuscript has reached his publishers and Florence breaks off the engagement.Chapter 1, the hall, as Florence
Joy in the Morning 6 scenes
  1. Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Chapters 1–2, the bookshop, as a tall girl of commanding aspect
  2. Florence finds Bertie apparently buying her novel Spindrift, autographs it, is thrilled to hear he reads Spinoza, and gives him a melting look that sends him fleeing.Chapter 2, the bookshop, as chunk of the dead past
  3. Florence cycles up, says she has put flowers in Wee Nooke, and calls Stilton a perfect imbecile for becoming a constable instead of letting his uncle put him into Parliament, leaving Bertie appalled at how shaky their engagement looks.Chapter 8, Steeple Bumpleigh, as Florence
  4. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Chapters 13–15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Lady Florence
  5. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Chapters 15–19, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Florence
  6. Jeeves reports that, according to the boot-boy Erbut, Boko ended his engagement to Florence by kicking Edwin, and just then Edwin stoops in the drive before them.Chapters 20–21, the drive, as Lady Florence
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 7 scenes
  1. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat, as Florence
  2. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Florence
  3. Over kippers at the Mottled Oyster Bertie fails to reconcile Florence with Stilton, and when the club is raided she bolts and Bertie trips the pursuing constable and is arrested.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster, as Matilda Bott
  4. Florence, savaging a gooseberry bush, tells Bertie that Stilton found from the night club's book that she dined there with Bertie and has vowed to break Bertie's spine in five places; Bertie consoles himself that Stilton will never come to Brinkley.Chapter 10, the kitchen garden, as Florence
  5. Bertie slips out of the dining-room into the garden to dodge Stilton, plans to flee, and meets Uncle Tom, who grumbles about his guests and says Aunt Dahlia nearly fainted while he talked of Sidcup coming to see his silver.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley, as Florence
  6. Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Chapters 12–14, Florence's bedroom
  7. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room, as that pill Florence
Much Obliged, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window, as Florence
  2. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Florence

Talked about, but not there

Carry On, Jeeves 6 scenes
  1. Bertie explains his dependence on Jeeves and recalls sacking Meadowes for stealing.Chapter 1
  2. Jeeves cures Bertie’s hangover, gets hired, and disapproves of his fiancée and check suit.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  3. Unable to think how to destroy the manuscript, Bertie leaves it locked in the drawer.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby, as Florence
  4. Jeeves admits removing the parcel and lets Bertie believe he will arrange its destruction.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby, as Lady Florence
  5. Bertie sacks Jeeves for posting the memoirs, and Jeeves explains why marrying Florence would have been a mistake.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby, as Lady Florence
  6. Bertie rehires Jeeves and agrees to give away the check suit, which Jeeves has already disposed of.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby
Joy in the Morning 25 scenes
  1. Bertie explains why he has always avoided Steeple Bumpleigh, home of Aunt Agatha, Lord Worplesdon, Florence and Edwin, turning down Boko's invitations and Jeeves's hints about the fishing.Chapter 1, Steeple Bumpleigh
  2. Bertie restores himself at the Bollinger bar and, standing in the doorway, notices something odd across the way.Chapters 2–3, the Bollinger, as Your betrothed
  3. Walking home, Bertie resolves to save Stilton from Florence and writes Nobby Hopwood a strong note listing Florence's defects, then posts it.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  4. Jeeves reveals that he has arranged for Bertie to occupy Lord Worplesdon's cottage Wee Nooke at Steeple Bumpleigh as cover for a secret merger meeting, and Bertie, fearing Aunt Agatha, gives in.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Lady F. Craye
  5. Over morning tea Jeeves cheers Bertie with news of a fancy dress ball, passes on Aunt Agatha's order to fetch a birthday brooch for Florence, and hears that Nobby is engaged to Boko.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat, as Lady Florence
  6. Once clear of London traffic on the Portsmouth Road, Bertie sets about quizzing Nobby on her engagement to Boko.Chapters 5–6, as Florence
  7. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Chapters 6–7, the Bokeries, as Florence
  8. Driving to Wee Nooke in gloom, Bertie is hailed by a hostile Stilton Cheesewright, who has inexplicably become a country policeman.Chapters 7–8, as Florence
  9. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Chapters 8–11, Wee Nooke, as Florence
  10. After searching the garden in vain Bertie walks to Boko's gate and meets Nobby cycling up.Chapters 11–12, the Bokeries, as Florence
  11. Nobby whistles Bertie aside behind a tree, learns that the night's plan has flopped and that Boko has alienated Uncle Percy, and rushes off to tick Boko off.Chapter 15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as Florence
  12. Back at Boko's, Bertie confesses he is engaged to Florence again, and agrees to tick off Uncle Percy in return for Boko's secret method of getting disengaged.Chapter 19, the sitting-room, as Florence
  13. Avoiding Boko and Stilton swimming, Bertie finds Jeeves fishing, reproaches him for the Uncle Percy scheme, and sends him to find out from the Hall staff how Boko got out of his engagement to Florence.Chapter 20, the river, as Lady Florence
  14. Over breakfast Bertie warns Boko he may back out of telling off Uncle Percy, and Boko calls him a poltroon and threatens to withhold the Fittleworth secret.Chapter 20, the dining-room
  15. Bertie tells Nobby he is backing out of inflaming Uncle Percy, until she promises to show Florence his insulting letter about her if he goes through with it.Chapter 21, the drive, as Florence
  16. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Chapters 21–22, Uncle Percy's study, as Florence
  17. Leaving the study, Bertie is met in the passage by Nobby.Chapters 22–23, the passage, as Florence
  18. Bertie spends the day stiffening Uncle Percy's nerve until Clam telephones to say he'll come to the ball as Edward the Confessor, and Uncle Percy confesses how a Covent Garden ball once cost him his engagement to Aunt Agatha.Chapter 24, Uncle Percy's study, as Florence
  19. Bathing in the river, Bertie is confronted by a seething Stilton, who tells him Florence has fixed their wedding for September and wishes he could break his neck or pinch him.Chapter 24, the river, as Florence
  20. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Chapters 24–25, the sitting-room, as Florence
  21. With Uncle Percy shoeless in Boko's car, Bertie pleads Boko's cause; Percy rails against Fittleworth, softens on hearing Boko once kicked Edwin, and gives in when told Hollywood is six thousand miles away.Chapter 26, Boko's car, as Florence
  22. Nobby kisses Bertie in gratitude, and he swims in the river reflecting that all is well and the uniform is gone for good.Chapter 27, the river, as Florence
  23. Nobby, off to London to marry Boko, admits that Bertie's letter never reached Florence because Edwin destroyed it, and a baffled Jeeves is sent to the kitchen to eat anchovy paste.Chapter 29, the dining-room, as Florence
  24. Stilton cycles up to tell Bertie that he has resigned from the Force and that Florence has broken off her engagement to Bertie and is going to marry him.Chapter 29, the garden gate, as Florence
  25. Jeeves confesses that Aunt Agatha never came home, and he and Bertie slip away at once while Uncle Percy sings in the bath.Chapter 29, the kitchen, as Florence
The Mating Season 1 scene
  1. At the village concert the Kegley-Bassingtons and George's 'Ben Battle' are endured, Catsmeat and Gussie's Pat and Mike act dies, and Esmond's hunting song brings the house down until the standees chant him back on over Poppy's dance.Chapter 22, the village hall
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 16 scenes
  1. Bertie, in the bath and dreading a dinner with Aunt Dahlia's Trotters, greets the returning Jeeves, who reads him Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds to back his play of Florence Craye's Spindrift, and they agree to refuse.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Lady Florence Craye’s
  2. Recalling how Florence tried to improve him with Tolstoy, Bertie goes to the Savoy and endures a dreary dinner with the Trotters.Chapter 3, the Savoy, as this woman
  3. Bertie relaxes alone in the Drones smoking-room until he finds Stilton beside him.Chapters 3–4, the Drones smoking-room, as Florence
  4. Bertie recalls the Mottled Oyster's raffish history of raids and changes of name.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster, as Florence
  5. Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's flat, as Florence
  6. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Florence
  7. Aunt Dahlia phones to bully Bertie into coming to amuse the lovesick Percy Gorringe while she works on selling Milady's Boudoir to L.G. Trotter, and the promise of Anatole's cooking wins him over.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Florence
  8. Bertie arrives at Brinkley and hands Aunt Dahlia her necklace; she explains she bought the Morehead serial to salt the mine for Trotter, won't say how she got the money from Uncle Tom, blames Ma Trotter for Trotter's stalling, throws her Agatha Christie at Bertie for singing, and introduces him to a reproachful Percy before sending him out to cheer Percy up.Chapter 9, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Florence
  9. Bertie reluctantly goes out after Percy, gives up when he can't find him, and then meets him rounding a rhododendron bush.Chapters 9–10, the garden at Brinkley, as Florence
  10. Bertie hurries in late to dress, and Jeeves mentions he told Mr. Cheesewright that Bertie was out strolling in the grounds.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Florence
  11. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Florence
  12. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Florence
  13. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley, as Florence
  14. Percy Gorringe, refused by Florence, calls Bertie a weedy butterfly and then reveals he has bought Stilton's sweep ticket on him, so Stilton is free to thrash Bertie, who dashes to the stables hoping to catch Jeeves.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley, as Florence
  15. Bertie catches Jeeves just as he is driving off to London and arranges to go with him to collect the cosh Jeeves confiscated from young Thos, so as to face Stilton armed.Chapter 16, as Florence
  16. Aunt Dahlia reports that Jeeves's mixture has cured Trotter, who will sign, and once she leaves Bertie tells Jeeves he will shave off his moustache.Chapter 22, the Brinkley dining-room, as Florence
Much Obliged, Jeeves 14 scenes
  1. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as a girl of strong character
  2. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street
  3. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room, as Florence
  4. Ginger arrives with his new secretary Magnolia Glendennon, whom Bertie likes, and Bertie drives them all down to Brinkley singing while Jeeves stays silent.Chapter 5, as Florence
  5. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room
  6. Bertie goes down to dinner gloomily, knowing that Spode, Madeline, Florence and Runkle will all be there to spoil Anatole's cooking.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court, as Florence
  7. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as Florence
  8. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn, as Florence
  9. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house, as Florence
  10. Spode tells Bertie that Madeline has broken their engagement and means to marry Bertie, and threatens to tear him limb from limb if he lets her down.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Florence
  11. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive, as Florence
  12. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Miss Craye
  13. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Florence
  14. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Florence