Lady Wickham

Also called Mother, Bobbie’s mother, the relict of the late Sir Cuthbert, Lady Wick-ham, Wickham senior

Bobbie's mother, a novelist and hostess at Skeldings, old friend of Aunt Agatha, who has dramatized one of her novels.

In each book 3 books

• In Very Good, Jeeves
  Bobbie's mother, a novelist and hostess at Skeldings, old friend of Aunt Agatha, who has dramatized one of her novels.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Hostess at whose house the affair of the punctured hot-water bottle happened.
• In Jeeves in the Offing
  Bobbie's mother, a novelist of Skeldings Hall, who loathes Bertie, faints at the engagement news and wires her daughter hourly to come home.

Connections

dealings

• is parent of, is mother of Bobbie Wickham 15
• opposes the match of, loathes Bertie Wooster 7
• is a pal of Aunt Agatha 1
• is shattered by the engagement notice in The Times^✦︎ 1
• is sucked up to by Kipper Herring 1
• employs Lady Wickham's butler 1
• creates Lady Wickham's play^✦︎ 1
• wrote Lady Wickham's telegrams^✦︎ 1

Everyone and everything else (1)

• is married to Sir Cuthbert Wickham 1

Scenes they are in

1. A sobbing Lady Wickham phones about news in The Times and faints, and Bertie finds the paper announcing his engagement to Bobbie.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat

Talked about, but not there

Very Good, Jeeves 7 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
2. At Skeldings Bertie explains he came to avenge himself on Tuppy and because he loves Bobbie Wickham, and Jeeves says red-haired, frivolous Miss Wickham is no wife for him.Chapter 3, the Clock Room
3. Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
4. Telephoning from the Drones, Bertie hears the lunch was a triumph and the play sold, but Bobbie confesses she gave McIntosh to the Blumenfeld child.Chapter 5, the Drones Club, as mother
5. Back at the flat Bertie breaks the news, and Jeeves devises a plan for Bertie to slip into the Blumenfelds' Savoy suite while Bobbie is there and lure the dog out with aniseed.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat, as mother
6. With Bertie hiding behind the settee, Jeeves convinces the furious Blumenfeld that Bertie is a dangerous lunatic who hates fat men, sells him a substitute terrier for a fiver, and Bertie happily takes Aunt Agatha's call.Chapter 5, the sitting-room, as mother
7. Bobbie reveals that Clementina is out without leave from Miss Mapleton's school and gives Bertie the string-and-flower-pot plan, which Bertie passes off to Jeeves as his own, refusing to hear Jeeves's alternative.Chapter 7, the Marine Plaza, as mother

Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene

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

Jeeves in the Offing 8 scenes

1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
2. Bobbie, fishing at the lake, explains that she announced her engagement to Bertie so that her mother, relieved to escape him, will welcome Kipper Herring, whom she loves.Chapter 3, the lake, as Mother
3. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn, as her mother
4. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room
5. Bertie enters Wilbert's room, finds a housemaid there with Augustus the cat hunting a mouse, and gets rid of her by claiming Augustus has traumatic symplegia.Chapters 7–8, the Blue Room, as her mother
6. Bertie finds Bobbie in her car at the front door; she explains she was called to the phone by her mother, who thinks him a nincompoop, and drives off home.Chapter 8, the front door, as Mother
7. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn, as Wickham senior
8. Driving down to Brinkley, Bertie briefs Jeeves on Bobbie's haughty spirit and on Poppet the dachshund, then spots Bobbie's roadster outside a wayside inn and stops.Chapter 11, as Mother