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Encyclopedia > Aunt Dahlia

Dahlia Travers is a fictional character in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. Married to Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia is the bonhomous, red_faced aunt of Bertie Wooster and the employer of the supremely gifted French chef Anatole.


Unlike Bertie's other aunt Agatha, this 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." Sometimes, Bertie suspects, Dahlia seems to value him more for his association with the exceptionally brainy 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.


Her most notable personal characteristic is her carrying voice. Riding as she did for years with the Quorn and the Pytchley, she can emit a yelp that can be heard in the next county.


She was for many years the proprietor of a weekly newspaper for women, Milady's Boudoir, which 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."


Dahlia and Tom Travers make their residence at Brinkley Court outside Market Snodsbury in Worcestershire.


The only data Wodehouse gives as to the date of the couple's wedding is "the year Bluebottle won the Cambridgeshire."


She appears in very many of the Jeeves and Wooster novels, notably among them:



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Right Ho, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse - Section 22 of 26 - Book Club/Fiction - ArcaMax Publishing (3076 words)
Aunt Dahlia steadied herself against the sideboard, and spoke in a low, husky voice: "Faces?" "Yes, madam." "Through the skylight?" "Yes, madam." "You mean he's sitting on the roof?" "Yes, madam.
While I stood musing thus, Aunt Dahlia, in her practical way, was coming straight to the point: "What's all this?" Anatole did a sort of Swedish exercise, starting at the base of the spine, carrying on through the shoulder-blades and finishing up among the back hair.
It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, normally as genial a bird as ever encouraged a gaggle of hounds to get their noses down to it, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.
Bertie Wooster at AllExperts (1777 words)
Only his aunts â€" Aunt Dahlia and Aunt Agatha, sisters of his late father â€" play major roles in the stories; his uncles, while mentioned in passing, are not recurring characters.
Nevertheless, he is perpetually afraid of his Aunt Agatha, who considers him a spineless invertebrate and a burden on society; his Aunt Dahlia, on the contrary, likes him very much, often inviting him to stay at her country estate, Brinkley Court.
Aunt Agatha is of the opinion that Bertie, a burden to society in his present state, must marry and carry on the Wooster name; furthermore, he must marry a girl capable of moulding his personality and compensating for his many defects.
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