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  Madeline Bassett at AllExperts
The daughter of Sir Watkyn Bassett of Totleigh Towers, Madeline is a friend of Bertie's cousin Angela (the daughter of his Aunt Dahlia Travers).
What for Bertie is mere tongue-tied woolly-headedness Madeline mistakes for pining love, and when he pleads in the third person the cause of Gussie Fink-Nottle, who adores Madeline from afar, Madeline of course mistakes this for a proposal.
Madeline is subsequently engaged to Gussie Fink-Nottle, and eventually marries Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/madeline_bassett.htm   (289 words)

  
  Madeline Bassett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The daughter of Sir Watkyn Bassett of Totleigh Towers, Madeline is a friend of Bertie’s cousin Angela (the daughter of his Aunt Dahlia Travers).
Madeline always thinks that Bertie comes to where she is to display his pining, everlasting adoration, when he's actually there for perfectly legitimate reasons having nothing to do with her.
Madeline happens to be there and she tells Bertie that he should not have come.
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 Gussie Fink-Nottle Information
When, in Right Ho, Jeeves, he first sees Madeline Bassett, he falls immediately in love with her; however, too shy to tell her himself, he convinces Bertie to break the news for him.
Madeline misunderstands Bertie, thinking that he loves her and is trying to tell her indirectly, and when, later in the book, she becomes engaged to Gussie, she promises to marry Bertie if ever Gussie leaves her.
Having loved her in silence for years, but convinced of his unsuitability for her, Spode is nevertheless anxious to protect her from heartbreak or wrongdoing by any of her fiancés, and eager to beat any man to a pulp who does not treat her properly.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Gussie_Fink-Nottle   (355 words)

  
 Bassett House
Bassett is located at 35°32'9" North, 90°7'34" West (35.535942, -90.126052).
What for Bertie is mere tongue-tied wolly-headedness Madeline mistakes for pining love, and when he pleads in the third person the cause of Gussie Fink-Nottle, who adores Madeline from afar, Madeline of course mistakes this for a proposal.
A native of New York City, Bassett and her sister grew up with her mother, a social worker who stressed the importance of education for her children.
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 Jeeves & Wooster (an Episode Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Newt-fancier Gussie Fink Nottle pines for Madeline Bassett at Brinkley Court.
Madeline Bassett was portrayed throughout series 3 - 4 by Elizabeth Morton; the part had previously been filled by Francesca Folan (series 1) and Diana Blackburn (series 2).
The impending wedding between Madeline Bassett and Spode at Totleigh Towers is fraught with complications.
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 Watkyn Bassett at AllExperts
Wodehouse, Sir Watkyn Bassett is a magistrate in the Bosher Street courthouse in London, the father of Madeline Bassett, and Bertie Wooster's potential father-in-law on several occasions.
Bassett is a noted collecter of antique silver, and his collection rivals that of Bertie's Uncle Tom Travers, causing Bertie, at his Aunt Dahlia's request, to attempt to burgle Bassett's residence, Totleigh Towers.
In the television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bassett is portrayed by John Woodnutt.
en.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/watkyn_bassett.htm   (174 words)

  
 Gussie Fink-Nottle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When, in Right Ho, Jeeves, he first sees Madeline Bassett, he falls immediately in love with her; however, too shy to tell her himself, he convinces Bertie to break the news for him.
Madeline misunderstands Bertie, thinking that he loves her and is trying to tell her indirectly, and when, later in the book, she becomes engaged to Gussie, she promises to marry Bertie if ever Gussie leaves her.
Gussie never actually marries Madeline, instead eloping with the daughter of an American millionaire, Emerald Stoker (who was working as a cook at the Bassett mansion), leaving his longtime fiancee to marry Spode.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gussie_Fink-Nottle   (402 words)

  
 The Beak's Book Club - The Code of the Woosters
Bassett's daughter Madeline is engaged to Wooster's old friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, who begs Wooster to help reconcile the couple when their engagement is nearly ruined.
Wooster is determined to help Gussie keep his marriage, not only to help a friend, but also because Madeline is convinced that Wooster wants to marry her, which he in fact dearly wishes to avoid.
Wooster must therefore visit the Bassett house in order to reconcile Gussie and Madeline, while pinching the cow-creamer from Pop Bassett, while he is simultaneously under tight surveillance because Bassett thinks he is a chronic bag-snatcher.
www.thebeak.org /bc/10woosters.html   (696 words)

  
 Bertie & Jeeves Novels
She misinterpreted this as his staring at her with longing and passion.When Bertie cornered Madeline out in the garden, to plead Gussie's cause with her, Madeline of course thought Bertie was pleading his own, reflecting on the times he stood staring at her.
She apologetically stated that she loved another (Gussie), but if anything were to go phut with this, that he was next on the boards to escort her down the aisle.
Bertie goes to Sir Watkyn Bassett¹s Totleigh Towers to pinch the Cow Creamer, that Sir Watkin slighted from Uncle Tom.Features Madeleine Bassett, Sir Roderick Spode, Gussie Fink-nottle, Aunt Dahlia.
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 Anatole's Cuisine
Kipper Herring showed his pleasure on being reassured that the dish was still in Anatole's repertoire in Jeeves in the Offing.
Finally, in Much Obliged, Jeeves, a sombre Bertie expressed his doubts that even the thought of the dish outweighed the presence at the dinner table of Spode, Madeline, Florence Craye and L P Runkle.
These recipes are copyright The PG Wodehouse Society (UK) and M Roux, and must not be reproduced in any commercial form whatsoever without consent. Visitors to this site are asked to respect this request, as breaches will mean that articles such as this will no longer be given freely by their authors.
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 Which Wodehouse Novel ...? - Literature Network Forums
In chapter 9, Bertie is prevailed upon to go to his host, Sir Watkyn Bassett, and as a ruse, to ask for Stiffy Byng's hand in marriage.
Old Bassett, rather than accept Bertie into the family, is now ready to embrace old Stinker with open arms.
Madeline, the dreadful drip who thinks that the stars are God's daisy chain, has broken off her engagement to Gussie Fink-Nottle and plans to marry Bertie instead.
www.online-literature.com /forums/showthread.php?t=15582   (638 words)

  
 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
Inhabiting its confines is drippy Madeline, who firmly believes that the stars are God's daisy chain.
She is engaged to Bertie's old chum Gussie, but she'll happily settle for Bertie should things go amiss.
Madeline Bassett — Sir Watkyn's daughter engaged to Gussie, then Bertie, and finally to Spode
wodehouse.ru /85.htm   (258 words)

  
 Bertie Wooster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The cow creamer rightfully belongs to Uncle Tom, but by use of trickery, was purchased by Sir Watkyn Bassett (a rival collector and the magistrate who fined Bertie five pounds for stealing a Policeman's helmet one [Boat Race Night).
Bertie asks Madeline Bassett for an invitation and goes through a harrowing experience at Totleigh Towers, but is ultimately crowned with success.
Madeline Bassett and Honoria Glossop are similarly deluded, though in their cases Bertie was attempting to plead the case of a friend (Gussie Fink-Nottle and Bingo Little respectively) but was misinterpreted as confessing his own love.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertie_Wooster   (1796 words)

  
 PG Wodehouse The Code of the Woosters - Synopsis Picture - Further Information
That at least was Aunt Dahlia's view when she heard that her husband was proposing to cede Anatole to Sir Watkyn Bassett in exchange for the coveted cow-creamer.
The only thing for it was to leg it hot-foot for Totleigh Towers, the Bassett residence, and pinch it from off the sideboard.
When she arrived Bertie Wooster was already at Totleigh, pouring oil on the troubled waters of a lovers' breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Noitle.
www.pgwodehousebooks.com /code-woosters.htm   (198 words)

  
 Jeeves And Wooster (Guide)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Madeline's cousin Stiffy wants to marry penniless curate Harold 'Stinker' Pinker.
Madeline catches him with Stiffy and jumps to the wromg conclusion.
He recovers the notebook from Spode and returns it to Gussie, who takes it to Madeline and explains why he was in Stiffy's room.
www.phill.co.uk /comedy/jeeves/guide2.html   (1077 words)

  
 Jeeves and Wooster
His engagement to Madeline is under threat and Bertie is summoned to heal the rift; something Bertie regards as imperative as the dizzy woman may set her sights on him.
They must persuade her guardian, Watkyn Bassett, that the Rev. has sufficient ambition to progress beyond curate.
The forthcoming publication of Sir Watkyn Bassett's racey memoirs proves to be the source of a conundrum for Bertie, who is engaged to be married to Watkyn's niece Florence Craye, the "Lady Caligula" who wants publication avoided at all costs.
www.tvheaven.ca /jandw.htm   (1929 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves: Books: P.G. Wodehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeleine Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead, so Jeeves and Bertie visit Totleigh Towers, a rural leper colony.
Madeline's engagement to that world-class newt lover, Gussie Fink-Nottle, is on the rocks when Madeline insists that the meat-loving Gussie become a vegetarian.
The book continues the saga of the Wooster / Bassett / Fink-Nottle "love triangle", and Wodehouse as ever handles the problem of filling in new readers with aplomb (though it is undoubtedly better to have read the preceding volumes - after all, why wouldn't you want to read the preceding volumes?).
www.amazon.co.uk /Stiff-Upper-Jeeves-P-G-Wodehouse/dp/0140024794   (1618 words)

  
 The Code of the Woosters
On this occasion, the problem concerns a certain cow-creamer, that should have belonged to Uncle Tom, but, with the use of trickery, was purchased by Sir Watkyn Bassett.
Aunt Dahlia insists that Bertie steal it back, but Sir Watkyn and his companion Rodrick Spode are on to him.
Madeline Bassett — Slim, golden-haired daughter of Sir Watkyn engaged to Gussie
wodehouse.ru /59.htm   (371 words)

  
 Vintage Catalog | The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
As it turned out, I was one of his last customers, for a couple of weeks later he inherited a pot of money from a distant relative and retired to the country.
I allude to the sinister affair of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, old Pop Bassett, Stiffy Byng, the Rev. H.
Meeting Madeline Bassett one day and falling for her like a ton of bricks, he had emerged from his retirement and started to woo, and after numerous vicissitudes had clicked and was slated at no distant date to don the sponge-bag trousers and gardenia for buttonhole and walk up the aisle with the ghastly girl.
www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400079599&view=excerpt   (2194 words)

  
 By Jeeves
If Bassett were to read this and believe that Bertie (Gussie) was engaged to Stiffy as well as courting Madeline, things could get ugly.
Bertie takes on the role of messenger to convince Madeline that Gussie does love her, though he may not be able to show it (When Love Arrives).
However, Madeline misinterprets his words, and believes that Bertie is the one in love with her, which infuriates Gussie.
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 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (Unabridged) -- P.G. Wodehouse
Bertie is worried, as the only obstacle to a trip down the aisle for him and Madeline is the fact that his friend Gussie and Madeline are in love with each other.
When Madeline tries to turn Gussie into a vegetarian and Gussie rebels, Bertie is panic-stricken.
Add to the picture a charming cook offering Gussie forbidden treats, Stephanie Byng and her dog Bartholomew, and the nonstop rivalry between Sir Watkyn Bassett and Bertie's Uncle Tom, and Jeeves has his hands full sorting through the problems that dog Bertie's footsteps.
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 Bertie's Buddies - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
He is always engaged to Madeline Bassett, who believes that the stars are God's daisy chain and other equally ridiculous things.
Roderick Spode is the Eighth Earl of Sidcup, and pines for Madeline Basett from afar.
He is Madeline Bassett's father and makes his home at Totleigh Towers.
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Berties-Buddies-233070.html   (439 words)

  
 Payment Systems | Assignment 5
(b) Stephanie (“Stiffy”) Byng comes to Spode’s office and claims to be Madeline Bassett, a supplier to whom Spode owes money (whom Spode has not met).
Spode issues a check to Madeline Bassett and gives it to Stiffy, who indorses the check in Madeline’s name, cashes it, and then departs with the money for the Isle of Man. UCC § 3-404(a).
After Gussie gives the check to Pinker, Pinker forges Bassett’s indorsement and cashes the check.
www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/rmann/payment/assign05.htm   (892 words)

  
 OEDILF
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The Bassett disaster menaces Bertie Wooster with matrimony in five novels by P.G. Wodehouse, beginning with Right Ho, Jeeves (1934; US title Brinkley Manor).
Unfortunately for poor chivalrous Bertie, "if a girl thinks you're in love with her and says she will marry you, you can't very well voice a preference for being dead in a ditch"—Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971; US title Jeeves and the Tie that Binds), ch.
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 Mini-reviews of the Jeeves novels of P. G. Wodehouse
Gussie, originally engaged to Madeline, gets engaged instead to Angela, infuriating her ex-fiancé Tuppy; the chef Anatole blows his top; Gussie drinks too much; and Bertie has to bicycle eighteen miles in the night.
Bertie accidentally steals Bassett's umbrella; Gussie loses a leather-bound book containing insults, to disastrous results; various people try to steal a cow-creamer; Stiffy flmails Bertie by threatening to sabotage Gussie's and Madeline's engagement; Jeeves and Bertie scramble on top of furniture to avoid Bartholomew; and Spode is thwarted by the word “Eulalie.”
Aunt Dahlia employs Bertie to stop Willie from proposing to Phyllis; Upjohn threatens to sue Kipper's periodical for slander; Glossop goes undercover as the butler Swordfish; Bertie is caught searching Willie's room twice for a cow-creamer; and Jeeves disappears for most of the novel.
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 [InSpectres] Wodehouse variant thinking
Gussie Fink-Nottle is hanging around there too, because Madeline Bassett is visiting Honoria, who's been a bit under the weather, and not surprisingly is chafing at Madeline's nursing.
The idea being that Honoria will fall madly in love with Pongo's manly athleticism, Madeline will of course cling to Gussie for comfort, and Bertie will be even less likely to end up engaged to either of them than he is now.
Fortunately Sir Roderick Glossop is away giving a lecture in Austria, because of course he won't have Bertie on the place, as he knows Bertie is totally insane (keeps rabbits in his bedroom, after all).
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 Bassett
NICHOLOS4 BASSETT (MICHAEL3, MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born May 19, 1787 in Albany,NY.
GARRETT5 BASSETT (NICHOLOS4, MICHAEL3, MICHAEL2, MICHAEL1) was born June 16, 1827.
Bassett was married, May 11, 1857, to Miss Maria Lacey,
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 Code of the Woosters, The : Jeeves to the Rescue - P.G. Wodehouse
Dahlia trumps Bertie's objections by threatening to sever his standing invitation to her house for lunch, an unthinkable prospect given Bertie's devotion to the cooking of her chef, Anatole.
It seems Madeline isn't his only interest; Gussie also wants to study the effects of a full moon on the love life of newts.
Added to the cast of eccentrics are Roderick Spode, leader of a fascist organization called the Saviors of Britain, who also wants that cow-creamer, and an unusual man of the cloth known as Rev. H.
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