Lady Delia Glossop is a recurring fictional character

Fictional character

A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...

 in the Jeeves

Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...

 stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

, being the wife of well known nerve specialist Sir Roderick Glossop, mother to Oswald and Honoria Glossop

Honoria Glossop

Honoria Glossop is a particularly formidable female from the Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse. She is of a rather muscular, sporty temperament, and as such remains unattached...

, and an acquaintance of Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha

Aunt Agatha

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia...

 Gregson. She features in many of the early Jeeves books, but, we are told by Bertie, dies just before the events of Thank You, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 16, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on April 23, 1934 by Little, Brown and Company, New York....

(1934), whereupon her husband endeavours to remarry Mrs Myrtle Pongleton, the Dowager Lady Chuffnell.

Overview

Lady Glossop first meets Bertie when he becomes matrimonially bound to her daughter Honoria, an arrangement worked by her and Bertie's fearsome Aunt Agatha

Aunt Agatha

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia...

. Bertie is quite horrified by the prospect of marrying into the Glossop family, and bequeaths that Jeeves

Jeeves

Reginald Jeeves is a fictional character in the short stories and novels of P. G. Wodehouse, being the valet of Bertie Wooster . Created in 1915, Jeeves would continue to appear in Wodehouse's works until his final, completed, novel Aunts Aren't Gentlemen in 1974, making him Wodehouse's most famous...

 sort the whole affair out so that a satisfactory conclusion may be reached, for him. Jeeves stumbles upon the information that both Glossops have a severe horror of moggies, and so at dinner that evening at Bertie's flat, releases several cats. The Glossops leave with the distinct impression that Bertie is to be avoided.

Lady Glossop is more sympathetic towards Bertie's woolly-headedness that her husband, and is in the future always willing to give Bertie a second chance. Consequently, Bertie feels more comfortable with her than Sir Roderick.