The Wooster Papers

Places

Skeldings

Also Skeldings Hall, Lady Wickham’s, Lady Wickham’s place in Hertfordshire, Skeldings Hall, Herts, the garden at Skeldings

Skeldings Hall, Lady Wickham's Hertfordshire house, where Bertie spends Christmas and the hot-water bottles are punctured.

In each book 2 books
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Skeldings Hall, Lady Wickham's Hertfordshire house, where Bertie spends Christmas and the hot-water bottles are punctured.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Skeldings Hall, Lady Wickham's house in Hertfordshire, scene of the hot-water bottle incident, which Bertie left at three in the morning down a water pipe.

Connections

dealings

Inside it

Talked about, but not there

Very Good, Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Over breakfast Bertie tells a disappointed Jeeves that Monte Carlo is off in favour of Christmas at Skeldings, and Aunt Agatha telephones to warn him that Sir Roderick Glossop will be there.Chapter 3
  2. At Skeldings Bertie explains he came to avenge himself on Tuppy and because he loves Bobbie Wickham, and Jeeves says red-haired, frivolous Miss Wickham is no wife for him.Chapter 3, the Clock Room
  3. Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.Chapter 5, the sitting-room, as Skeldings Hall
Jeeves in the Offing 4 scenes
  1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Lady Wickham’s place in Hertfordshire
  2. Bobbie, fishing at the lake, explains that she announced her engagement to Bertie so that her mother, relieved to escape him, will welcome Kipper Herring, whom she loves.Chapter 3, the lake
  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, as Skeldings Hall
  4. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Skeldings Hall