The Wooster Papers

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Aunt Dahlia and Bertie Wooster

They deal with each other in Other Stories 2, 3; Carry On, Jeeves 9; Very Good, Jeeves 4, 6, 8, 9, 11; Right Ho, Jeeves 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23; Thank You, Jeeves 3, 16; The Code of the Woosters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14; Joy in the Morning 7; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22; Jeeves in the Offing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23; Much Obliged, Jeeves 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie arrives at Marsham Manor and meets the bearded Fothergills and Cornelia, while Everard frets about a mewing cat.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham
  2. Aunt Dahlia shows Bertie the Venus that Edward Fothergill painted and Everard loathes, and orders him to steal and burn it that night, a deal she has struck with Cornelia for the serial.Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham
  3. Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Jeeves snip up and burn the canvas until Jeeves notices the last scrap is signed Everard Fothergill.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  4. Bertie catches Edward Fothergill stealing back his own Venus and swears secrecy, then refuses Jeeves's plan to have him found stunned by burglars, and is promptly knocked out from behind.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham
  5. Bertie wakes with a sore head to hear the gang is blamed, Cornelia is grateful and the serial is Aunt Dahlia's, and asks Jeeves to drop the eggs and omelettes.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  6. Over dinner Aunt Dahlia reveals that Blair Eggleston is too timid to propose to Honoria, then asks Bertie to play Santa Claus at her children's party, and he flatly refuses.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  7. 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
  8. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he kissed Honoria in the Park under Eggleston's eye, then Honoria phones: Eggleston proposed, broke it off after seeing the kiss, and now she means to marry Bertie.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  9. Waterbury phones to say Trixie expects a wedding, demands two thousand pounds in heart balm on threat of breach of promise and Porky Jupp, and Aunt Dahlia summons Jeeves to confer.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  10. With Bertie behind the piano, Jeeves poses as a broker's man and Aunt Dahlia threatens to ship Bertie penniless to Canada, routing Waterbury; Jeeves then gets Glossop cast as Santa Claus and Bertie agrees to Florida.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  11. Dahlia explains that Tom’s indigestion and her bad cook threaten the magazine’s funding.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir
  12. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room
  13. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room
  14. Dahlia reveals that Jeeves secured Anatole, Rosie has withheld her article, and Tom is financing the magazine again.Chapter 9, the Royal Pump-Room
  15. 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
  16. Aunt Dahlia complains that Tuppy has dropped Angela for Cora Bellinger and tells Bertie to have Jeeves break up the affair.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  17. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  18. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he cannot come on her yacht cruise because he loves Gwladys Pendlebury, and she bets him Jeeves will stop the match, get rid of the portrait and have him aboard the yacht.Chapter 6, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  19. Aunt Dahlia explains that she has bet Anatole on Bonzo against Thos in Anstruther's Good Conduct contest, and Bertie vows to scupper Thos without Jeeves.Chapter 8, the Brinkley drawing-room
  20. Aunt Dahlia reports Snettisham's attempt to bribe Bonzo, and the baffled Bertie agrees to wire for Jeeves.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  21. Anatole cooks better than ever while the Snettishams gloat at dinner and Anstruther's visit runs out.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  22. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat
  23. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1
  24. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat
  25. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  26. Aunt Dahlia explains that Tuppy belittled Angela's shark, says she wants Jeeves on the case, and begs Bertie in vain not to try a plan of his own.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  27. Bertie leaves his aunt with an inscrutable smile and in the garden runs into a gloomy Tuppy throwing stones at a flowerpot.Chapters 7–8, the garden at Brinkley
  28. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room
  29. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court
  30. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden
  31. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
  32. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  33. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley
  34. With Anatole in bed and the kitchen maid cooking, lunch passes in gloomy silence, broken only by a snatch of song from Gussie.Chapter 16, the Brinkley dining-room
  35. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall
  36. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room
  37. 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
  38. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room
  39. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley
  40. At the gardener's shed Bertie berates Jeeves, finds the bicycle has no lamp, and hears Uncle Cyril's story of Nicholls and Jackson.Chapter 22, the gardener's shed
  41. Aunt Dahlia refuses Bertie lunch and sends him to a Brompton Road antique shop to sneer at the cow-creamer Uncle Tom means to buy, so the price comes down.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  42. Bertie denies loving Madeline, and Aunt Dahlia, who will skip the wedding, reveals that Sir Watkyn tried to steal Anatole while staying at Brinkley.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  43. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  44. Aunt Dahlia reveals Sir Watkyn has offered Uncle Tom the cow-creamer in exchange for Anatole, smashes the Infant Samuel, accepts that Spode's threat stops Bertie, and suggests finding a shady secret of Spode's.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  45. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  46. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  47. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  48. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  49. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  50. 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
  51. Bertie slips out of the dining-room into the garden to dodge Stilton, plans to flee, and meets Uncle Tom, who grumbles about his guests and says Aunt Dahlia nearly fainted while he talked of Sidcup coming to see his silver.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley
  52. 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
  53. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  54. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  55. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
  56. 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
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. 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
  60. Aunt Dahlia reports that Jeeves's mixture has cured Trotter, who will sign, and once she leaves Bertie tells Jeeves he will shave off his moustache.Chapter 22, the Brinkley dining-room
  61. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  62. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den
  63. Squelching back from the lake, Bertie and Bobbie meet Aunt Dahlia, who wants to know why everyone but Upjohn is soaked.Chapter 16, the herbaceous border
  64. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court
  65. Aunt Dahlia rings for the butler, gets Jeeves instead, has him pack Upjohn's things and orders Bertie to drive Upjohn to Market Snodsbury.Chapter 18, the study
  66. Jeeves has pinched Upjohn's speech while packing, and after Bertie fumbles the telephone call Bobbie seizes the receiver and forces Upjohn to drop his libel suit against Kipper in writing.Chapters 19–20, Aunt Dahlia's den
  67. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a fury over the cancelled lunch, hears Bertie is off to Totleigh, and warns him that Sir Watkyn is trying to steal Jeeves.Chapter 5, London
  68. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers
  69. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room
  70. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
  71. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court
  72. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room
  73. 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
  74. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  75. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room
  76. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  77. 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
  78. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  79. Bertie phones Aunt Dahlia to cadge an invitation, but she is off to the Briscoes at Maiden Eggesford and promises to find him a cottage there, near the Bridmouth races.Chapter 3
  80. Aunt Dahlia rings to say she has got the cottage, beginning what Bertie calls the Maiden Eggesford Horror.Chapter 3
  81. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall
  82. Aunt Dahlia ticks Bertie off for his dullness at lunch, then hears the cat story and says an ominous 'H'm' at the news that losing the cat would ruin Potato Chip's training.Chapter 5, the grounds of Eggesford Hall
  83. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke
  84. Aunt Dahlia telephones, blasts Bertie for sending the cat back, calms down when told about Major Plank, and hears of his engagement to Vanessa Cook.Chapter 13, Wee Nooke

Every dealing, in order

Other Stories

Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Joy in the Morning

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves in the Offing

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen