Honoria Glossop

Also called Honoria, Miss Glossop, Honoria Jane Louise, the Glossop pestilence, the Glossop, Cousin Honoria, H. Glossop, Tuppy’s frightful cousin Honoria

Sir Roderick's formidable daughter, once engaged to Bertie, loved by Blair Eggleston.

In each book 7 books

• In Other Stories
  Sir Roderick's formidable daughter, once engaged to Bertie, loved by Blair Eggleston.
• In The Inimitable Jeeves
  Sir Roderick's large, brainy, athletic daughter, with a laugh like a train in a tunnel, whom Bingo worships and Bertie is engaged to until the lunch with her father.
• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Sir Roderick's formidable daughter, Bertie's former fiancée, engaged to Biffy and cousin of Heloise Pringle.
• In Very Good, Jeeves
  Sir Roderick's daughter, to whom Bertie was once engaged.
• In Right Ho, Jeeves
  Tuppy's frightful cousin, to whom Bertie was once briefly engaged.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Sir Roderick's daughter, to whom Bertie was once engaged.
• In Joy in the Morning
  The hearty girl Bertie was once nearly married to.

Connections

dealings

• is engaged to, is dreaded by Bertie Wooster 21
• is child of Sir Roderick Glossop 9
• is loved by Bingo Little 5
• means to sack, dislikes Jeeves 5
• is loved by Blair Eggleston 4
• is engaged to, is the unwanted fiancée of Biffy 3
• is picked as a match by Aunt Agatha 2
• is child of Lady Glossop 2

Everyone and everything else (6)

• is devoted to, worries about Oswald Glossop 2
• invites Daphne Braythwayt 1
• is cousin of Heloise Pringle 1
• is refused by Lady Chuffnell 1
• reads Ruskin 1
• is cousin of Tuppy Glossop 1

Scenes they are in

Other Stories 1 scene

1. Bertie gives Honoria the rush of a lifetime with lunches, dinners and night clubs.Chapter 3, as Honoria

The Inimitable Jeeves 2 scenes

1. Bertie hints to Honoria of a shy admirer, pushes Oswald off the bridge, finds Bingo has not turned up, dives in uselessly while Oswald swims ashore, and Honoria takes it all as a roundabout proposal and decides to take him in hand.Chapter 6, the lake, as Honoria
2. At lunch Honoria announces Bertie must get rid of Jeeves when they marry, and Aunt Agatha then warns him that Sir Roderick Glossop, doubting his sanity, is coming to lunch at his flat next day.Chapter 7, Aunt Agatha's house

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 8 scenes

1. Back from Glossop's clinic, Bertie learns from Jeeves, via the Junior Ganymede club book, that Lady Chuffnell won't marry Sir Roderick while Honoria is unmarried, and that Aunt Dahlia is coming to dinner.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Miss Glossop
2. Over dinner Aunt Dahlia reveals that Blair Eggleston is too timid to propose to Honoria, then asks Bertie to play Santa Claus at her children's party, and he flatly refuses.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
3. Aunt Dahlia spurns Bertie's roses but agrees to his scheme: he will rush Honoria so that a jealous Eggleston proposes, while she eggs Eggleston on.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as Honoria
4. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he kissed Honoria in the Park under Eggleston's eye, then Honoria phones: Eggleston proposed, broke it off after seeing the kiss, and now she means to marry Bertie.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
5. Putting the problem as A, B and Caesar, Bertie gets Jeeves to suggest that A produce another fiancée, but neither can see where to find one.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
6. In the Charing Cross Road the greasy agent Jas Waterbury takes fifteen quid to supply his niece Trixie, a Fairy Queen, as Bertie's pretend fiancée.Chapter 3, Jas Waterbury's office
7. With Trixie on his lap Bertie expects Honoria but gets Eggleston, who, told Trixie is Bertie's fiancée, announces that he and Honoria are engaged again.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Honoria
8. Waterbury phones to say Trixie expects a wedding, demands two thousand pounds in heart balm on threat of breach of promise and Porky Jupp, and Aunt Dahlia summons Jeeves to confer.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as Honoria

The Inimitable Jeeves 10 scenes

1. At Buck's, Bingo Little, now tutoring the Glossop kid at Ditteredge, declares at the top of his voice that he worships Honoria Glossop.Chapter 5, Buck's, as the girl
2. Over lunch Aunt Agatha announces that Bertie is to marry Honoria Glossop and must go down to Ditteredge Hall tomorrow.Chapter 5, as Honoria
3. At Ditteredge Bertie meets the supercilious Oswald and hatches a Jeeves-like scheme: he will push the boy off the bridge so that Bingo can rescue him under Honoria's eyes.Chapter 5, the grounds, as Honoria
4. On the stairs Bingo explains he never hid in the bushes because he fell in love at first sight with Daphne Braythwayt, and Bertie walks away from him.Chapter 6, Ditteredge Hall, as Honoria
5. Bertie gets a letter from Jeeves about an enjoyable bathe and goes down hollowly to have Honoria read Ruskin to him.Chapter 6, Ditteredge Hall, as Honoria
6. Bertie rushes back to his flat, checks Jeeves's austere menu for Sir Roderick, and braces himself as the bell rings.Chapters 7–8, the sitting-room, as Honoria
7. Jeeves returns, Aunt Agatha telephones in a state, Bertie realises the engagement is off and Jeeves engineered it, and Jeeves books passage to New York.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as the young lady
8. Bertie reflects on the menace of letters of introduction and explains why he welcomed Cyril, bearing a civil one from Aunt Agatha, as a Dove of Peace.Chapter 9, as Glossop
9. Bingo reveals he was the bearded orator, explains he is courting the revolutionary Charlotte Rowbotham, and invites himself and her family to tea at Bertie's flat.Chapter 11, the Drones Club
10. Bingo marches Bertie across ploughed fields to catch a glimpse of Mary, who passes with her brother, her dog and the curate while Bingo is too awed to speak.Chapter 15

Carry On, Jeeves 11 scenes

1. Biffy recounts losing his fiancée Mabel through forgetfulness and says he is negotiating to sell his house to Sir Roderick.Chapter 6, the café
2. Bertie reads of Biffy’s engagement to Honoria and is baffled by Jeeves’s indifference.Chapter 6, Bertie's Paris room, as MISS GLOSSOP
3. Biffy asks how to escape Honoria, and Bertie offers to attend Sir Roderick’s lunch and consult Jeeves.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as the Glossop pestilence
4. Sir Roderick orders a Wembley expedition, while Biffy loses his nerve and fails to squirt him.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat, as Honoria
5. Bertie explains Biffy’s lost romance to Jeeves, who had not known why Biffy lost touch with Mabel.Chapter 6, as Honoria
6. After enjoying the rides, Biffy spots the Palace of Beauty and remembers Jeeves’s recommendation.Chapter 6, the Amusement Park, as Honoria
7. Biffy smashes the glass to reach Mabel and is arrested, leading Sir Roderick to end his engagement to Honoria.Chapter 6, the Palace of Beauty
8. Bertie meets the dismal Pringles, inherits Sippy’s reputation for tormenting cats and discovers Heloise’s resemblance to Honoria.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room, as Honoria
9. Jeeves explains Heloise’s kinship to Honoria and advises Bertie to avoid her.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house, as Miss Glossop
10. Heloise’s constant pursuit convinces Bertie and Jeeves that she intends to marry him.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house, as Honoria
11. Heloise presses Bertie to abandon Jeeves and Bertie Wooster until Aunt Jane’s demand for the cat saves him.Chapter 7, the summer-house, as Honoria

Very Good, Jeeves 2 scenes

1. Over breakfast Bertie tells a disappointed Jeeves that Monte Carlo is off in favour of Christmas at Skeldings, and Aunt Agatha telephones to warn him that Sir Roderick Glossop will be there.Chapter 3, as Honoria
2. After a sleepless night Bertie learns that Jeeves kept quiet to save him from Honoria, that Bobbie also sent Tuppy to puncture Bertie's bottle (with Sir Roderick on it), and that the Monte Carlo booking was never cancelled.Chapter 3, the Moat Room, as Honoria

Right Ho, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as Honoria

Thank You, Jeeves 2 scenes

1. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York, as Honoria
2. Chuffy, rattled to learn from Glossop that Bertie was once engaged to Pauline, is reassured and reveals he is now engaged to her and that Stoker has agreed to buy the Hall.Chapter 6, the rustic bench

Joy in the Morning 1 scene

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