The Wooster Papers

Places, in Brinkley Court

the lawn

Also tea table, the trough, the main lawn, the tea table, lawn

The shady lawn at Brinkley where Anstruther sleeps and gets drenched.

In each book 3 books
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    The shady lawn at Brinkley where Anstruther sleeps and gets drenched.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    The main lawn at Brinkley, where tea is served and Bertie dozes over a Cream novel.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The lawn at Brinkley where Runkle sleeps in the hammock.

Scenes set here

Jeeves in the Offing 5 scenes
  1. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn, as the trough
  2. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn
  3. Bertie tells Bobbie he is through, but she talks him into a second search, promising to stand guard and sing if Mrs. Cream approaches so he can escape by the balcony and water pipe.Chapter 8, the lawn
  4. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn
  5. Bertie gives Kipper and Bobbie the lake plan, which they embrace, and Kipper finds it peculiar that a butler thought of it.Chapter 14, the lawn
Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. 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

Talked about, but not there

  1. From Bertie's window they watch Thos, enraged by Sebastian's slighting of Garbo at Jeeves's prompting, drench Anstruther with a bucket and get thrashed, losing the contest.Chapter 8, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as lawn