Rosie M. Banks

Also called Mrs Bingo, Rosie, Mrs Little, Mrs Bingo Little, Bingo’s missus, Bingo’s Rosie, The girl, Tall, lissom, female

Mrs Bingo Little, the romantic novelist, cited as Cornelia Fothergill's less gooey rival.

In each book 9 books

• In Other Stories
  Mrs Bingo Little, the romantic novelist, cited as Cornelia Fothergill's less gooey rival.
• In The Inimitable Jeeves
  The romantic novelist whose books Bingo reads to his uncle and whom Bertie is passed off as; working as a waitress at the Senior Liberal Club for material, she marries Bingo.
• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Mrs Bingo Little, the famous female novelist, whose article 'How I Keep the Love of My Husband-Baby' Bingo wants suppressed; Anatole's employer.
• In Very Good, Jeeves
  Mrs Bingo Little, the romantic novelist, away lecturing in America, then under the spell of her school friend Laura Pyke.
• In Right Ho, Jeeves
  Anatole's employer before Brinkley.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Bingo's wife, the novelist, who wrote a mushy article about him.
• In The Code of the Woosters
  Bingo Little's wife.
• In The Mating Season
  Mrs Bingo, novelist and author of Mervyn Keene, Clubman, whose books sell well.
• In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  Rosie M. Banks, Bingo's wife, a well-known novelist keen on atmosphere.

Connections

dealings

• is married to, is loved by Bingo Little 26
• is stolen by, is commissioned by Aunt Dahlia 6
• is a pal of, admires Laura Pyke 5
• is opposed as a match by Lord Bittlesham 5
• is impersonated by, demands of Bertie Wooster 4
• employs Anatole 3
• is refused by, is the guest of the Bandit 2
• writes, refuses How I Keep the Love of My Husband-Baby^✦︎ 2

Everyone and everything else (15)

• wrote, writes Mervyn Keene, Clubman^✦︎ 2
• wrote, creates the Rosie M. Banks novels^✦︎ 2
• wrote The Woman who Braved All^✦︎ 2
• wrote A Red, Red Summer Rose^✦︎ 1
• wrote All for Love^✦︎ 1
• leaves in the care of the housekeeping money^✦︎ 1
• rewards Jeeves 1
• employs the Littles' parlourmaid 1
• employs Mary 1
• leaves in the care of the Pekingese^♞︎ 1
• reveals her identity to the proofs^✦︎ 1
• wins the Scripture prize^✦︎ 1
• works at the Senior Liberal Club 1
• is told by Simpson 1
• hires the Traverses' housemaid 1

Scenes they are in

The Inimitable Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Lunching Bingo at the Senior Liberal Club while the Drones is being cleaned, Bertie watches him fall instantly in love with their waitress.Chapter 17, the Senior Liberal Club, as the girl
2. Bertie meets the quietly dressed bride in the hall and the three take a taxi.Chapter 18, as the bride
3. Bertie quotes The Woman who Braved All at Lord Bittlesham, who thinks Bertie is its author, is won over and consents to Bingo's marriage.Chapter 18, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens, as wife

Carry On, Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Bertie meets Rosie outside the magazine offices and accepts an invitation to dine with the Littles.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir, as Mrs Little
2. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room, as Rosie
3. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room

Very Good, Jeeves 7 scenes

1. Over breakfast at Bingo's new country house, Bertie is invited back for the Lakenham races and Mrs Bingo announces that her school friend Laura Pyke is coming to stay.Chapter 9, Bingo's house, as Mrs Bingo
2. At a meagre dinner the Pyke lectures on food and holds up Bingo's eating as the awful example.Chapter 9, Bingo's house
3. The luncheon-basket has been left behind; Rosie meekly accepts it, the men eat Jeeves's sandwiches behind a hedge, and Jeeves confesses he left the basket on purpose.Chapter 9, Lakenham races, as Mrs Bingo
4. Bertie spends a hungry, bored afternoon thinking hard thoughts of Jeeves until Mrs Bingo asks him to drive her and Laura home early for tea.Chapter 9, Lakenham races, as Mrs Bingo
5. The Bingos' car runs out of petrol on a lonely by-road, Rosie and the Pyke start to bicker over Bingo, and a householder whose baby Bertie's honking nearly woke threatens him and refuses petrol.Chapter 9, Norfolk, as Mrs Bingo
6. Bertie meets Bingo and Jeeves coming in his car, and he and Bingo creep back to overhear Rosie and the Pyke in a full-scale row raking up their schooldays.Chapter 9, Norfolk, as Rosie
7. The Pyke leaves to catch her train, Bingo bullies the Bandit into giving Rosie tea by threatening to wake his baby, wins back her adoration, and reveals that Jeeves drained the petrol to start the row.Chapter 9, Norfolk, as Mrs Bingo

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 1 scene

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, as Mrs Bingo Little

The Inimitable Jeeves 10 scenes

1. Jeeves reveals his understanding with Mortimer Little's cook and proposes that Bingo read Rosie M. Banks novels to his gouty uncle to soften him up about marrying a waitress.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
2. Over an egg beaten up in sherry, a hoarse Bingo reports that the Rosie M. Banks novels are winning over his uncle and that he has a pippin of an idea to clinch things.Chapter 2
3. Hailed by old Little as the author of Rosie M. Banks's novels, Bertie wins his blessing for Bingo's marriage to a waitress, but learns the allowance cannot be raised because old Little is marrying his cook.Chapter 2, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens
4. Bingo, now engaged to the waitress, talks Bertie into posing again as Rosie M. Banks to win back his allowance from his uncle, starting with a signed copy of The Woman who Braved All.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as Tall, lissom, female
5. Melted by the novel, Lord Bittlesham restores Bingo's allowance but cools on the marriage when he learns the waitress is not the same one as before.Chapter 17, as a waitress
6. Bingo drifts in with a flower in his buttonhole, babbles, and announces that he is married.Chapters 17–18, Bertie's flat, as little woman
7. Bingo bursts in to say his bride revealed herself as Rosie M. Banks, and his uncle, realising he was hoaxed, called her an impostor.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as the little missus
8. Bingo phones to say his allowance is stopped and both his uncle and wife are coming to demand explanations, so Jeeves packs Bertie off to shoot in Norfolk while he stays to pacify the parties.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as little woman
9. Bertie spends a rainy, jumpy week in Norfolk and decides to go home and lie low.Chapter 18, Norfolk, as wife
10. Lord Bittlesham opens Bingo's door and flees in fright, and Bingo explains that Jeeves fixed everything by telling the old man Bertie is a lunatic who believes he is Rosie M. Banks, with Sir Roderick Glossop backing it up.Chapter 18, Bingo's flat, as little woman

Carry On, Jeeves 8 scenes

1. Jeeves approves most of Bertie’s fashion article but objects to his silk evening shirts before Bertie asks him to find the Littles a housemaid.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Little
2. Dahlia explains that Tom’s indigestion and her bad cook threaten the magazine’s funding.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir, as Mrs Little
3. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Rosie
4. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Rosie
5. Bertie climbs into Rosie’s study, startles a Pekingese, and crashes into a table of fragile ornaments.Chapter 9, Rosie's study, as Rosie
6. Finding his photograph missing, Bertie blames Mary and escapes through the window while the parlourmaid goes to ask her.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room, as Mrs Bingo
7. Dahlia reveals that Jeeves secured Anatole, Rosie has withheld her article, and Tom is financing the magazine again.Chapter 9, the Royal Pump-Room, as Mrs Little
8. Jeeves explains how Anatole’s abandoned fiancée drove him to Dahlia, lists his rewards, and reveals that he returned Bertie’s silk shirts.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Little

Very Good, Jeeves 8 scenes

1. Bertie finds Bingo Little in the garden, tutoring young Thomas, who begs Bertie to treat him as a stranger lest Aunt Agatha sack him, then dives into a laurel bush.Chapter 1, the garden, as Rosie
2. After days of golf with Filmer, Bertie hears Bingo confess he lost Rosie's housekeeping money on a horse and fears Thomas's planned revenge on Filmer will get him sacked.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Rosie
3. Jeeves reveals he saved Bingo by telling Filmer that Bertie set the boat adrift, which also scuppers Aunt Agatha's plan to make Bertie Filmer's secretary, and proposes escape down the waterpipe.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Mrs Little
4. Losing his nerve, Bertie climbs the cedar with a flower-pot and is caught up the tree by a policeman, until Jeeves appears with a story of intruders.Chapter 7, the garden, as his wife
5. Bertie arrives at Brinkley Court and is greeted from the smoking-room window by old Mr Anstruther.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court, as Mrs Bingo Little
6. Driving away, Bertie praises the Bingos to Jeeves as a thoroughly united couple, unaware of the coming storm.Chapter 9
7. Bertie returns to find Bingo miserable: Laura Pyke is a food crank who has Rosie in thrall, and there are no cocktails and no beefsteak puddings.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Bingo's, as Rosie
8. Over biscuits, Bertie explains to Jeeves that the Pyke's criticism threatens the Bingo marriage and tells him to study her at the races.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Bingo's, as Mrs Bingo

Right Ho, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom, as Mrs Bingo Little

Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene

1. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House, as his wife

The Code of the Woosters 1 scene

1. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall, as Mrs Bingo Little

The Mating Season 2 scenes

1. Bertie copies out the letter, posts it at the post office and is at once hailed by Corky.Chapters 11–12, the post office, as some sort of female novelist
2. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2 scenes

1. 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
2. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Mrs. Bingo