Magnolia Glendennon

Also called Magnolia, Miss Glendennon, M. Glendennon, an American girl, the Glendennon popsy

Ginger's quiet American secretary from South Carolina, who returns his love and runs off to marry him.

Connections

dealings

• is employed by, is to marry Ginger Winship 13
• is employed by Boko Fittleworth 1

Scenes they are in

1. 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 Magnolia
2. At Brinkley the party separates and Bertie, finding the drawing-room empty and avoiding Uncle Tom's silver talk and Anatole's liver, decides to stroll in the grounds.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Magnolia
3. 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

Talked about, but not there

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
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. 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 his secretary
4. 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
5. 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 Glendennon
6. 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
7. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as M. Glendennon