Dame Daphne Littlewood Winkworth, relict of a rather
celebrated historian, the late P.B. Winkworth. A tall, dark,
handsome lightheavyweight with a formidable personality,
mother of Gertrude and Huxley, sister of Charlotte,
Emmeline, Harriet and Myrtle Deverill. Aunt of Esmond Haddock,
whose country house (Deverill Hall) she and her sisters infest
in The Mating Season, and Claude Duff. Headmistress of a fashionable
girls' school near Eastbourne (from which she is retired in
The Mating Season only) and godmother of Madeline Bassett. Wants to
marry Lord Emsworth in Galahad at Blandings and is foiled thanks to the
efforts of Galahad. Fires Jeff Bennison from his job teaching
drawing at her school in Sunset at Blandings.
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