Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a fictional character created by P. G. Wodehouse. Aunt Agatha, as she is best known, is Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia. She is fearsome and strong-willed, and is always trying to get Bertie married, though without success, thanks to Jeeves's interference. She is known as "the nephew-crusher". Bertie would avoid her if he could, but far too often finds himself bent to her indomitable will. Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... Dahlia Travers is a fictional character in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. ... Jeeves, here portrayed by Stephen Fry in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, is P.G. Wodehouses most famous character. ...

Agatha had at first been affianced to Percy Craye, though upon reading in the papers of his behavior at a Covent Garden ball, she had ended the engagement. She then married Spenser Gregson, who is her husband for most of the Wodehouse canon, though he dies in time for her to marry Craye, who had by then become Earl of Worplesdon, whereupon she becomes Lady Worplesdon. She has one son, Thomas Gregson, (Thos.). Percival Percy Craye, Earl of Worplesdon is a fictional character who appears in P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves novels and stories. ... Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. ... In the stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, Spenser Gregson is Bertie Woosters Aunt Agathas first husband. ... Thomas Gregson (Thos. ...

In Jeeves and Wooster, a Granada Television series based on the canon, which aired in the early 1990s, she was played by Mary Wimbush for the first three series and by Elizabeth Spriggs in the fourth. Hugh Laurie (left) and Stephen Fry portray Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves Jeeves and Wooster was a television series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories, and produced by Granada Television for the UKs ITV network from 1990 to 1993. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Mary Wimbush (March 19, 1924 — October 31, 2005) was a British actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. ... Elizabeth Spriggs (born 1929 in Buxton, England) is a British actress. ...

Descriptions of Aunt Agatha given by Bertie

• 'My Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.'
• 'Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.'
• 'When Aunt Agatha wants you to do a thing you do it, or else you find yourself wondering why those fellows in the olden days made such a fuss when they had trouble with the Spanish Inquisition.'
• 'Aunt Agatha, the one who kills rats with her teeth and devours her young.'
• 'My Aunt Agatha who eats broken bottles and is strongly suspected of turning into a werewolf at the time of the full moon.'

Aunt Agatha also seems likely to have caused Bertie's expostulation that "It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof". A selection of forms of barbed wire. ... Saint Dominic (1170 – August 6, 1221) Presiding over an Auto-da-fe, by Pedro Berruguete, (1450 - 1504). ... A German woodcut from 1722 A werewolf (also lycanthrope or wolfman) in folklore is a person who shapeshifts into a wolf or wolflike creature, either purposely, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse. ... A cloven-hoof is a type of hoof that is found on some animals. ...

Trivia

• "Aunt Agatha", or "Great Aunt Agatha", is a term sometimes used somewhat disparagingly by workers in the City of London's financial markets to describe a risk-averse, low-volume, non-corporate investor.

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Reference

• PG Wodehouse Resource Site