词条 | Madeline Bassett |
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| image = Elizabeth Morton as Madeline Bassett.jpg | caption = Elizabeth Morton as Madeline Bassett | name = Madeline Bassett | series = Jeeves | first = Right Ho, Jeeves (1934) | last = Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971) | creator = P. G. Wodehouse | portrayer = Bridget Armstrong Francesca Folan Elizabeth Morton and others | gender = Female | family = Sir Watkyn Bassett (father) | relatives = Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng (cousin) | nationality = British }} Madeline Bassett is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a sentimental and fanciful young woman to whom Bertie Wooster periodically finds himself reluctantly engaged. Life and characterThe daughter of Sir Watkyn Bassett and the cousin of Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, Madeline has golden hair, a treacly voice, a tinkling, silvery laugh and when she sighs, it sounds "like the wind going out of a rubber duck".[1][2] Bertie Wooster describes her in Right Ho, Jeeves as "a pretty enough girl in a droopy, blonde, saucer-eyed way but not the sort of breath-taker that takes the breath", though elsewhere he describes her as "physically in the pin-up class".[3][4] He also notes that she is excessively mushy and fanciful, regularly espousing whimsical beliefs about gnomes and stars. She plays piano and is apt to sing folk songs, especially when she is trying to cheer herself up.[5] She enjoys reading Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh and the works of Rosie M. Banks.[6] Inspired by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to become a vegetarian, she nonetheless has no knowledge of cooking.[7] In Right Ho, Jeeves, she meets and befriends Angela Travers and also meets Angela's cousin Bertie Wooster, on a trip to Cannes, during which she mistakenly believes that he is in love with her and is gazing at her with long, dumb, searching looks. When he tries to tell her subtly that "someone" (Gussie Fink-Nottle) has feelings for her, Madeline mistakenly believes Bertie is talking about himself.[8] To his great relief, she turns him down, as she is in love with Gussie; she assures Bertie that, if ever her engagement to Gussie were to fail, Bertie is the first person she would look to as a replacement fiancé. Since Bertie's personal code does not allow him to insult her by correcting her misunderstanding or rejecting her offer, he is thereafter under threat of having to marry her if she rejects her first choice. She becomes engaged (and disengaged) frequently in the novels, having idealistic standards that sometimes her fiancé cannot live up to. She becomes engaged to Bertie and Gussie in Right Ho, Jeeves and to Bertie and then back to Gussie in The Code of the Woosters. Her engagement to Gussie holds during The Mating Season, in which she visits an old friend of hers, Hilda Gudgeon, with whom she was educated at Roedean. Gussie later elopes with Emerald Stoker and Madeline becomes engaged variously to Bertie and Roderick Spode (Lord Sidcup) in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and again to Bertie and then back to Spode in Much Obliged, Jeeves. Ultimately, she is engaged to Spode and appears to be on her way to becoming the next Countess of Sidcup.[9] Appearances
QuotesMadeline is distinctive for her maudlin and fanciful statements,[10] illustrated by the following examples. Direct speech:
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References1. ^Garrison (1991), p. 10. 2. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 10, p. 112. 3. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 1, p. 19. 4. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1971], Much Obliged Jeeves, chapter 1, p. 9. 5. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 22, p. 186. 6. ^Cawthorne (2013), p. 203. 7. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 20, p. 171. 8. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 10, p. 114. 9. ^Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 22. 10. ^Ring & Jaggard (1999), p. 159. 11. ^1 Wodehouse (2008) [1934], Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 10, p. 111. 12. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1949], The Mating Season, chapter 16, p. 160. 13. ^1 Wodehouse (2008) [1963], The Feudal Spirit, chapter 12, p. 105. 14. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1971], Much Obliged Jeeves, chapter 7, p. 67. 15. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1971], Much Obliged Jeeves, chapter 7, p. 68. 16. ^Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 2, p. 19. 17. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/1/4/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 1, Episode 4 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=9 January 2018 |quote=}} 18. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/2/1/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 2, Episode 1 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=9 January 2018 |quote=}} 19. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/3/4/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 3, Episode 4 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=9 January 2018 |quote=}} 20. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/jeeves_and_wooster/episodes/4/5/ |title=Jeeves and Wooster Series 4, Episode 5 |author= |date= |website=British Comedy Guide |publisher= |access-date=9 January 2018 |quote=}} 21. ^{{cite book | last= Taves | first= Brian | title= P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations| publisher= McFarland & Company|date=2006 | page=199 |isbn=978-0786422883}} 22. ^{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4e2ef3d164cd408099b90fd2ad48dcd6 |title=What Ho, Jeeves!: 14: Getting Gussie Going |author= |date= |website=BBC Genome Project |publisher= |access-date=18 November 2017 |quote=}} 23. ^{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/081a121c28714dc4a8de6f4dd10c05d9 |title=Classic Serial: The Code of The Woosters |author= |date= |website=BBC Genome Project |publisher= |access-date=15 January 2018}} Bibliography
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