The Wooster Papers

Places, in Worcestershire

Market Snodsbury

The small town a mile or two from Brinkley Court, where the grammar school is.

In each book 3 books
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    The small town a mile or two from Brinkley Court, where the grammar school is.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    The nearby town where Bertie must drive Upjohn.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The strait-laced Worcestershire town near Brinkley where the by-election is fought and Bingley lives.

Connections

dealings

Inside it

Talked about, but not there

Right Ho, Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia wires Bertie to come at once, and his baffled 'Perplexed. Explain.' gets a curt repeat.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  2. 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
  3. Bertie stakes all on propinquity, sends Gussie the 'Lay off the sausages' telegram, and plans to shove the Market Snodsbury prize-giving on to Gussie.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  4. 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
  5. Driving to Market Snodsbury, Bertie looks on the bright side of Gussie's drunkenness, and Jeeves tells him Gussie is already engaged to Madeline Bassett.Chapter 17
  6. 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
  7. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  8. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room
Jeeves in the Offing 2 scenes
  1. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court
  2. 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
Much Obliged, Jeeves 9 scenes
  1. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's
  3. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room
  4. 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
  5. Bertie and Jeeves set out to canvass River Row for Ginger, debating whether a canvasser needs preliminaries, and split up at Numbers One and Two.Chapter 8, River Row
  6. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row
  7. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row
  8. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
  9. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window