Daphne Dolores Morehead

Daphne Dolores Morehead
Stephen Fry impersonating Daphne Dolores Morehead (Jeeves and Wooster - The Delayed Arrival)
First appearance	The Delayed Arrival
Created by	P. G. Wodehouse
Portrayed by	Stephen Fry
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Gender	female

Daphne Dolores Morehead is a recurring fictional character from Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, a novel by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. In the 1990s television series Jeeves and Wooster Daphne is portrayed by Stephen Fry in disguise and drag in order to impersonate the attractive bestselling novelist, probably based on Daphne du Maurier also known as "la Morehead". Daphne gets the unwanted attentions of George D'arcy Cheesewright ("Stilton"), with the comic element being Stilton's aggressive fascination with "her".

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 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. Bertie describes her entrance thus: "Seppings flung wide the gates, there was a flash of blond hair and a whiff of Chanel Number Five and a girl came sailing in, a girl whom I was able to classify at a single glance as pipterino of the first water."

References

• Wodehouse, P. G. (1999) [1954]. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-028120-7.