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Lady Glossop

Feb 16, 2006 20:16

What happened to Sir Roderick Glossop's first wife, does anyone know ( Read more... )

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weaselwoman13 February 17 2006, 01:34:39 UTC

Actually, I think Lady Glossop ran out on him. I can't remember why, though I do recall that there was another man involved. Scandalous!

recommendation February 17 2006, 05:17:56 UTC

this is correct. it was so random though! in the show, at least. she ran away with a butler or something.

TRUKY scandalous!

recommendation February 17 2006, 05:18:11 UTC

lol. i meant 'truly'.

innocentsmith February 17 2006, 02:16:09 UTC

I'm pretty sure she did die. Can't point to any references off the top of my head, though, so I guess that's not all that helpful. I think part of the problem is the fact that Bertie almost never makes reference to anyone dying. Usually the most you hear is that so-and-so inherited Whatsit Hall from their Uncle Whosit, and you have to assume that Uncle Whosit died for that equation to work. Mark "death" down with "war" and "sex" for topics Bertie scrupulously avoids.

...I do think I remember reading that Lady Glossop died, though. Where...damn. This is going to bug me all night.

adina_atl February 18 2006, 04:56:12 UTC

I managed to find a reference to Sir R. being a widower for two years in "Thank You, Jeeves." I guess I'll just have to make up a cause of death.

wildmagelet February 17 2006, 06:04:20 UTC

From what I remember, she ran away with a lower class man, didn't she?

fusepark February 17 2006, 06:07:57 UTC

Ran off with a bus driver.

day221b February 17 2006, 12:19:55 UTC

Hmm. I'm almost positive that in the books she did die. (I don't think the stories went into detail.) In the series with Fry & Laurie she did run off with someone. Or vice versa. Sorry I'm not much help, but yes, one says one thing and one says the other.

adina_atl February 18 2006, 04:59:35 UTC

Good to know that this is another place where the books and their adaptations differ. I must confess that I can't quite imagine Wodehouse writing that she'd run off. He talked a lot about the impermanence of modern marriage, but I don't think he ever wrote a rift in the lute between husband and wife that wasn't resolved in the last act.