Mrs. Trotter

Also called Ma Trotter, Moth-aw, Mrs. L.G. Trotter, the Trotters, Mrs. T., Percy’s mother, The Trotter female, The Trotter woman

Emily, Mrs. L.G. Trotter, Percy's domineering mother, who wants a knighthood for her husband and Anatole as the price of the Boudoir sale; owner of the pearl necklace, her reign collapses at breakfast.

Connections

dealings

• is married to, dominates L. G. Trotter 13
• is parent of Percy Gorringe 7
• is suspected by Aunt Dahlia 3
• loathes, is the social rival of Mrs. Alderman Blenkinsop 3
• owns Mrs. Trotter's necklace^✦︎ 3
• suspects, is resented by Seppings 3
• is advised by, insults Jeeves 2
• is loathed by Uncle Tom 2

Everyone and everything else (7)

• covets Anatole 1
• loathes Bertie Wooster 1
• covets the knighthood^✦︎ 1
• is sibling of Ma Trotter's brother 1
• threatens the police^⁂ 1
• resents Robert Blenkinsop 1
• entertains Stilton Cheesewright 1

Scenes they are in

1. 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 the Trotters
2. Anatole's superb dinner turns to ashes in Bertie's mouth as Stilton glares at him across the table and ignores Mrs Trotter's chatter.Chapter 11, the Brinkley dining-room, as The Trotter female
3. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Ma Trotter
4. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Ma Trotter
5. 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

Talked about, but not there

1. 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
2. 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 Ma Trotter
3. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall, as Moth-aw
4. Before Bertie can put the necklace back, a dyspeptic L.G. Trotter tuts at the open safe and slams it shut.Chapters 18–19, the hall