Aunt Dahlia - Overview

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". Dahlia is Tom's second wife.

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", 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 on calling 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.

Despite Tom and Bertie's dislike of Agatha, Dahlia does not mind her sister and even goes so far as to invite her to Brinkley Court, over Tom's objections.

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