Daphne Dolores Morehead
Daphne Dolores Morehead is a fictional character in a Jeeves novel, being a young an attractive blonde bestselling novelist, probably based on Daphne du Maurier. Blue-eyed, curvaceous, and perfumed with Chanel No. 5, she is also known as "la Morehead".
In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954), Daphne was invited by Aunt Dahlia, who wanted to use her fame to give instant credibility to her literary journal Milady's Boudoir and make it a much more attractive sell. Arrived for the last chapters, Daphne turned the large head of Stilton Cheesewright, definitively freeing Stilton from his on-again, off-again engagements to Florence Craye. She had noticed him in his Oxford boat-rowing days and was very pleased to find a decent man with a "majestuous" head not sporting one of those ugly, trendy mustaches that are the slippery slope to beards.
In the TV series, however, Daphne is simply Jeeves in disguise, with the comic element being Stilton's aggressive fascination with "her".
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