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Rosie M. Banks, famous female novelist, described in Bingo and the Little Woman (Bingo and the Little Woman/All's Well) as a tallish girl with sort of soft, soulful brown eyes, a nice figure, and rather decent hands. Marries Bingo Little at a registrar's in Holborn in Bingo and the Little Woman (Bingo and the Little Woman/All's Well) while working as a waitress in the Senior Liberal Club collecting material for Mervyn Keene, Clubman. Wife of Bingo Little in Clustering Round Young Bingo, Jeeves and the Old School Chum, All's Well with Bingo, Bingo and the Peke Crisis, Sonny Boy, The Editor Regrets, The Word in Season, Leave It to Algy, Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bingo Bans the Bomb, Stylish Stouts; author of some of the most pronounced and widely read tripe ever put on the market. Favorite author of one of Jeeves' aunts, who owns almost a complete set, and of Mortimer Little in Jeeves in the Springtime (Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum/No Wedding Bells for Bingo); of Mabel Potter in Bachelors Anonymous, and of thousands more. Among her heartthrob fiction for the masses are novels in which marriage with young persons of an inferior social status is held up as both feasible and admirable, e.g. Only a Factory Girl, All for Love, A Red, Red Summer Rose, The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick, The Woman Who Braved All, and Madcap Myrtle. Other Banks titles include By Honour Bound and 'Twas Once in May. Bingo Little persuades Bertie Wooster to pretend that Rosie Banks is his own nom de plume in Jeeves in the Springtime (Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum/No Wedding Bells for Bingo). In Clustering Round Young Bingo she has written a human interest piece for Milady's Boudoir entitled "How I Keep the Love of My Husband-Baby," describing Bingo as "half god, half prattling, mischievous child." Owns as many as six Pekes at a time, to which she is very devoted. Strongly disapproves of Bingo's gambling, and keeps him short of pocket money to prevent same, but is frequently out of town visiting her mother, who lives in Bognor Regis. She is a life-long friend of Julia Purkiss, wife of Bingo's employer at Wee Tots.

Source: Daniel H. Garrison. Who's Who in Wodehouse
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