List of Minor Blandings Characters - Maudie Stubbs

Maudie Stubbs

Born Maudie Beach, the niece of Blandings butler Sebastian Beach was something of a bohemian as a youth, and ran away from home to become a barmaid at the Criterion, taking on the nom de guerre Maudie Montrose. During her time there, the voluptuous Ms Montrose was a popular girl, friendly with the likes of Galahad Threepwood and "Tubby" Parsloe. She and Parsloe were engaged for a time, and planned a honeymoon in Paris, but their plans fell through due to some confusion.

She later married a man named Digby, who owned a Detective Agency which she inherited on his death and continued to run in an administrative capacity, and later a man named Stubbs, who also died; she lived in "a neat little house in the suburb of Valley Fields". When she arrives at Blandings in Pigs Have Wings, called in to keep tabs on the Empress, she takes the name of "Mrs Bunbury" (after the character from Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest), and still bears a striking resemblance to Mae West; notoriously anti-female Lord Emsworth takes something of a shine to her, but she is finally reunited with and marries her old flame "Tubby" Parsloe.