Lady Chuffnell

Also called Aunt Myrtle, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell, Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell, Mother, Ma Chuffnell, Myrtle, Lord Chuffnell’s aunt, an Aunt Myrtle

Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell, Chuffy's aunt, engaged to Sir Roderick Glossop but refusing to share a home with Honoria.

In each book 2 books

• In Other Stories
  Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell, Chuffy's aunt, engaged to Sir Roderick Glossop but refusing to share a home with Honoria.
• In Thank You, Jeeves
  Myrtle, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell, Chuffy's aunt and Seabury's fiercely protective mother, engaged to Sir Roderick Glossop until he thrashes her son, then sorry for it.

Connections

dealings

• is engaged to, is loved by Sir Roderick Glossop 17
• is aunt of, resents Chuffy 10
• is mother of, dotes on Seabury 9
• is disliked by Bertie Wooster 1
• moves out of the Dower House 1
• attacks Dwight Stoker 1
• is married to the fourth Baron Chuffnell 1
• refuses Honoria Glossop 1

Everyone and everything else (2)

• quarrels with J. Washburn Stoker 1
• orders Jeeves 1

Scenes they are in

1. A beaming Chuffy tells Bertie that Sir Roderick Glossop is to marry Aunt Myrtle and has found a millionaire, J. Washburn Stoker, to buy the Hall, just as the Stokers and Glossop arrive for lunch.Chapters 3–4, Chuffnell Hall, as Aunt Myrtle
2. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 2 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 Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell
2. 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 Myrtle, Lady Chuffnell

Thank You, Jeeves 11 scenes

1. Strumming his banjolele, Bertie tells Jeeves he saw the Stokers dining with Sir Roderick Glossop and Lord Chuffnell's aunt at the Savoy Grill, and is outraged to hear that Glossop has called to see him.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Myrtle
2. Bertie meets Chuffy in Piccadilly, learns he is lunching with Sir Roderick Glossop, rents a cottage at Chuffnell Regis from him, and tells him he has parted with Jeeves, whereupon Chuffy decides to call at the flat.Chapter 2, Piccadilly, as Aunt Myrtle
3. At the Drones Bertie decides the minstrels' banjoist makes up for having to meet Lady Chuffnell and the loathsome Seabury.Chapter 2, the Drones Club, as the Dowager Lady Chuffnell
4. Driving to the Hall, Seabury insults Bertie's suit, explains the smell at the Dower House, and demands five shillings protection money, which Bertie refuses.Chapter 3, as Mother
5. On a bench in the shrubbery Pauline tells Bertie she is crazy about Chuffy and asks him to hint that Chuffy should speak, until Jeeves appears.Chapters 4–6, the rustic bench, as her ladyship
6. 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, as Aunt Myrtle
7. Jeeves tells how a fight between Dwight and Seabury became a general brawl, Stoker withdrew from buying the Hall, Chuffy insulted him, Pauline was confined to the yacht, and Chuffy overheard about the kiss.Chapter 6, Jeeves's quarters, as Aunt Myrtle
8. Bertie dines on the yacht with Stoker and Dwight, learns Pauline is confined with a 'headache', and over cigars Stoker remarks that guests on a yacht can't easily get away and offers to show him round.Chapter 11, Stoker's yacht, as the Dowager Lady Chuffnell
9. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall, as her ladyship
10. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House
11. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study, as her ladyship