"Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" | |||
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Short story by P. G. Wodehouse | |||
Country | United Kingdom | ||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Comedy | ||
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Publisher | The Strand Magazine (UK) Cosmopolitan (US) | ||
Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
Publication date | April 1922 (UK) October 1922 (US) | ||
Chronology | |||
Series | Jeeves | ||
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"Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" (also published as "Aunt Agatha Makes a Bloomer") is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in The Strand Magazine in London in April 1922, and then in Cosmopolitan in New York in October 1922. The story was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate chapters, "Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mind" and "Pearls Mean Tears".[1]
In the story, Bertie's overbearing Aunt Agatha tries to get Bertie engaged to the respectable and dull Aline Hemmingway.