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'Dahlia Travers' (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced 'Aunt Dahlia'. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Proprietor of the weekly newspaper for women '''Milady's Boudoir''', she is married to Tom Travers, mother of Angela Travers and Bonzo Travers, and employs the supremely gifted French chef Anatole.
Dahlia and Tom Travers make their residence at Brinkley Court outside Market Snodsbury in Worcestershire. They were married "the year Bluebottle won the Cambridgeshire".
Aunt Dahlia is "built rather on the lines of Mae West", but red-faced. Her most notable personal characteristic is her carrying voice. Riding as she did for years with "the Quorn and the Pytchley"Two fox hunts based on the villages of Quorn and Pytchley, she tend to address one as if half a mile away, and can emit a yelp that could be heard in the next county.
She is also a Governor of Market Snodsbury Grammar School, for which she has the formidable task to find speakers for prize-giving day. When called, Bertie would rather shove it off on to his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle (and not "Spink-Bottle", as Dahlia insists to calls him).
Dahlia employs the French chef extraordinaire Anatole since stealing him from Rosie M. Banks (Mrs Bingo Little) with the help of Jeeves. Just the thought of his cooking is usually enough to make Bertie answer Dahlia's call to Brinkley Court, except when some prize-giving is involved.
Unlike Aunt Agatha, the aged relative seems to enjoy Bertie's company and occasionally shows him an aunt's love, even if she does call him a "young blot", "an idiot nephew", "a worm", etc. Indeed, Dahlia's famous telegram conversations with Bertie can display some rough love; for instance, after Bertie dumped his prize-giving duty on an unsuspecting Fink-Nottle, she sent:
And a few telegrams later, she sent:
Sometimes, Bertie suspects, Dahlia seems to value him more for his association with the exceptionally clever Jeeves than for his own qualities. Her chief use for Bertie, however, is to commit minor burglaries or acts of calculated vandalism, which often misfire and require Jeeves to extract them both from the soup.
'''Milady's Boudoir''' is a weekly newspaper for women, of which Aunt Dahlia is the proprietor. The paper never sold well and only stayed in business because of the reluctant largesse of Dahlia's husband, who referred to the paper as "Madame's Nightshirt".
; Backstory
In ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', she lost at baccarat the money to pay the printers and had Bertie and Jeeves help her squeeze it out of her tax-burdened husband. In "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", a man too timid to talk to his love is writing articles about girls for the paper. In ''Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit'', she tried to sell off the paper to Mr and Mrs Trotter, but was foiled. In "Jeeves Makes and Omelette", she asked Bertie to steal a painting to get a story for her magazine.
; Contributors include
★ Bertie Wooster once contributed an article, titled "What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing". (Written in "Clustering Round Young Bingo", proudly mentioned in some later stories.)
★ Rosie M. Banks (Mrs Bingo Little) once submitted an article, "How I Keep the Love of my Husband-Baby". Fortunately for her husband, it hasn't been published. And after Dahlia poached Rosie's chef Anatole, Rosie is unlikely to further write for Mrs Travers. (In "Clustering Round Young Bingo".)
★ Blair Eggleston has written a series of articles on the Modern Girl, though he is too timid around them. (In "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".)
Aunt Dahlia is featured in many Jeeves stories, across most of Wodehouse's writing career:
★ "Clustering Round Young Bingo" (1925) - short story, collected in ''Carry on, Jeeves'' (1925)
★ "Jeeves and the Song of Songs" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Spot of Art" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Love That Purifies" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (1930) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ ''Right Ho, Jeeves'' (1934) - novel
★ ''The Code of the Woosters'' (1938) - novel
★ ''Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit'' (1954) - novel
★ "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" (1958) - short story, collected in ''A Few Quick Ones'' (1959)
★ ''Jeeves in the Offing'' (1960) - novel
★ ''Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'' (1963) - novel
★ "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" (1965) - short story, collected in ''Plum Pie'' (1967)
★ ''Much Obliged, Jeeves'' (1971) - novel
★ ''Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'' (1974) - novel
Aunt Dahlia or her ''Milady's Boudoir'' are mentionned in:
★ "The Awful Gladness of the Mater" (1925) - short Mr Mulliner story (mention of ''Milady's Boudoir''), collected in ''Mr Mulliner Speaking'' (1929)
; Film and TV actresses"Aunt Dahlia" at the Internet Movie Database
★ Eleanor Summerfield in the BBC One's black-and-white ''World of Wooster'' (1965–1967).
★ In the 1990-1993 ITV series ''Jeeves and Wooster'', each season had a new actress:
★
★ Brenda Bruce, season 1, episode 2-4-5
★
★ Vivian Pickles, season 2, episode 1
★
★ Patricia Lawrence, season 3, episode 6
★
★ Jean Heywood, season 4, episode 4
; Radio actresses
; Audiobook actresses
★ Other characters in the Jeeves stories
; Sources consulted
★
★
; Endnotes
★
'Dahlia Travers' (née Wooster) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced 'Aunt Dahlia'. She is much beloved by her nephew, in contrast with her sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha. Proprietor of the weekly newspaper for women '''Milady's Boudoir''', she is married to Tom Travers, mother of Angela Travers and Bonzo Travers, and employs the supremely gifted French chef Anatole.
| Contents |
| Overview |
| Aunt Dahlia and Bertie Wooster |
| ''Milady's Boudoir'' |
| Stories |
| Actresses |
| See also |
| References |
| External links |
Overview
Dahlia and Tom Travers make their residence at Brinkley Court outside Market Snodsbury in Worcestershire. They were married "the year Bluebottle won the Cambridgeshire".
Aunt Dahlia is "built rather on the lines of Mae West", but red-faced. Her most notable personal characteristic is her carrying voice. Riding as she did for years with "the Quorn and the Pytchley"Two fox hunts based on the villages of Quorn and Pytchley, she tend to address one as if half a mile away, and can emit a yelp that could be heard in the next county.
She is also a Governor of Market Snodsbury Grammar School, for which she has the formidable task to find speakers for prize-giving day. When called, Bertie would rather shove it off on to his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle (and not "Spink-Bottle", as Dahlia insists to calls him).
Dahlia employs the French chef extraordinaire Anatole since stealing him from Rosie M. Banks (Mrs Bingo Little) with the help of Jeeves. Just the thought of his cooking is usually enough to make Bertie answer Dahlia's call to Brinkley Court, except when some prize-giving is involved.
Aunt Dahlia and Bertie Wooster
Unlike Aunt Agatha, the aged relative seems to enjoy Bertie's company and occasionally shows him an aunt's love, even if she does call him a "young blot", "an idiot nephew", "a worm", etc. Indeed, Dahlia's famous telegram conversations with Bertie can display some rough love; for instance, after Bertie dumped his prize-giving duty on an unsuspecting Fink-Nottle, she sent:
« Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder. If it doesn't look out for yourself. Consider your conduct frozen limit. What do you mean by planting your loathsome friends on me like this? Do you think Brinkley Court is a leper colony or what is it? Who is this Spink-Bottle? Love. Travers. » (in ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', chapter six)
And a few telegrams later, she sent:
« Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers. » (in ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', chapter six)
Sometimes, Bertie suspects, Dahlia seems to value him more for his association with the exceptionally clever Jeeves than for his own qualities. Her chief use for Bertie, however, is to commit minor burglaries or acts of calculated vandalism, which often misfire and require Jeeves to extract them both from the soup.
''Milady's Boudoir''
'''Milady's Boudoir''' is a weekly newspaper for women, of which Aunt Dahlia is the proprietor. The paper never sold well and only stayed in business because of the reluctant largesse of Dahlia's husband, who referred to the paper as "Madame's Nightshirt".
; Backstory
In ''Right Ho, Jeeves'', she lost at baccarat the money to pay the printers and had Bertie and Jeeves help her squeeze it out of her tax-burdened husband. In "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird", a man too timid to talk to his love is writing articles about girls for the paper. In ''Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit'', she tried to sell off the paper to Mr and Mrs Trotter, but was foiled. In "Jeeves Makes and Omelette", she asked Bertie to steal a painting to get a story for her magazine.
; Contributors include
★ Bertie Wooster once contributed an article, titled "What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing". (Written in "Clustering Round Young Bingo", proudly mentioned in some later stories.)
★ Rosie M. Banks (Mrs Bingo Little) once submitted an article, "How I Keep the Love of my Husband-Baby". Fortunately for her husband, it hasn't been published. And after Dahlia poached Rosie's chef Anatole, Rosie is unlikely to further write for Mrs Travers. (In "Clustering Round Young Bingo".)
★ Blair Eggleston has written a series of articles on the Modern Girl, though he is too timid around them. (In "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird".)
Stories
Aunt Dahlia is featured in many Jeeves stories, across most of Wodehouse's writing career:
★ "Clustering Round Young Bingo" (1925) - short story, collected in ''Carry on, Jeeves'' (1925)
★ "Jeeves and the Song of Songs" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Spot of Art" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Love That Purifies" (1929) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy" (1930) - short story, collected in ''Very Good, Jeeves'' (1930)
★ ''Right Ho, Jeeves'' (1934) - novel
★ ''The Code of the Woosters'' (1938) - novel
★ ''Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit'' (1954) - novel
★ "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" (1958) - short story, collected in ''A Few Quick Ones'' (1959)
★ ''Jeeves in the Offing'' (1960) - novel
★ ''Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves'' (1963) - novel
★ "Jeeves and the Greasy Bird" (1965) - short story, collected in ''Plum Pie'' (1967)
★ ''Much Obliged, Jeeves'' (1971) - novel
★ ''Aunts Aren't Gentlemen'' (1974) - novel
Aunt Dahlia or her ''Milady's Boudoir'' are mentionned in:
★ "The Awful Gladness of the Mater" (1925) - short Mr Mulliner story (mention of ''Milady's Boudoir''), collected in ''Mr Mulliner Speaking'' (1929)
Actresses
; Film and TV actresses"Aunt Dahlia" at the Internet Movie Database
★ Eleanor Summerfield in the BBC One's black-and-white ''World of Wooster'' (1965–1967).
★ In the 1990-1993 ITV series ''Jeeves and Wooster'', each season had a new actress:
★
★ Brenda Bruce, season 1, episode 2-4-5
★
★ Vivian Pickles, season 2, episode 1
★
★ Patricia Lawrence, season 3, episode 6
★
★ Jean Heywood, season 4, episode 4
; Radio actresses
; Audiobook actresses
See also
★ Other characters in the Jeeves stories
References
; Sources consulted
★
★
; Endnotes
External links
★
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