# Leave It to Psmith — Character guide

> Key figures in Leave It to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse.

- [Psmith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/psmith.md): Psmith arrives at Blandings posing as the visiting poet Ralston McTodd, armed with nothing but nerve, a good tailor, and an inexhaustible gift for elegant nonsense. He is a man who solves problems by conversation — recru
- [Eve Halliday](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/eve_halliday.md): Eve comes to Blandings on legitimate business — cataloguing Lord Emsworth's library — and finds herself courted by a man she has just caught in an elaborate deception about a wife named Cynthia. She is nobody's fool: her
- [Freddie Threepwood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/freddie_threepwood.md): Freddie is a young man of good intentions and poor execution — he misses trains, loses himself in cinemas, and has somehow entangled himself in a scheme he can't afford to have exposed. When Psmith appears in his compart
- [Lord Emsworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/lord_emsworth.md): Lord Emsworth presides over Blandings with benevolent absent-mindedness, his real passions being roses, herbaceous borders, and his prize pig. He invites a poet to stay, endures Psmith's persiflage with polite bewilderme
- [Edward Cootes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/edward_cootes.md): Cootes arrives at the castle expecting to play the visiting poet and instead gets smoothly demoted to Psmith's 'valet' — a humiliation he swallows because, as he puts it, once in, he's in. He is a professional, which mak
- [Rupert Baxter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/rupert_baxter.md): Baxter is the one man at Blandings who suspects Psmith from the start, and his suspicions cost him dearly: he spends a night digging up flowerpots, gets his face dirty, and is publicly dismissed as stark, staring mad. Hi
- [Aileen Peavey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/aileen_peavey.md): A guest at Blandings Castle, Miss Peavey drifts through its literary society with a delicate, spiritual air that her hostess's relations find something of a strain. Yet her solitude on a country road reveals a woman who 
- [Joseph Keeble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/joseph_keeble.md): Married to the formidable Lady Constance, Joseph Keeble moves through Blandings as a man of substance whose money is not entirely his own to command. His stepdaughter Phyllis's happiness and his own domestic standing dep
- [Ralston McTodd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/ralston_mctodd.md): A Canadian poet whose identity is stolen by Psmith.
- [Lady Constance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/lady_constance.md): Lady Constance presides over Blandings with a hostess's conviction that the castle should host the literary and artistic world — a policy that has produced some rare specimens at the dinner table. Her authority is real b
- [Phyllis Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/phyllis_jackson.md): Phyllis is the quiet centre of the novel's romantic and financial knots: stepdaughter to a wealthy man, beloved of Mike Jackson, and the reason Eve Halliday comes to Blandings at all. She is spoken of with affection by t
- [Beach](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/beach.md): Beach has presided over Lady Constance's literary and artistic guests long enough to be profoundly shocked by their disordered locks and ill-cut evening clothes. Psmith arrives as a pleasant surprise, and the butler's on
- [Cynthia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/cynthia.md): A former love interest of Psmith, mentioned but not present.
- [Miss Clarkson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/miss_clarkson.md): The secretary at the Drones Club employment agency.
- [Mike Jackson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/mike_jackson.md): Mike Jackson is the reason Phyllis Jackson is at the centre of the plot's financial anxieties, and the reason Psmith — his old friend and former Billingsgate colleague — has any business at Blandings at all. His engageme
- [Susan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/susan.md): A maid at Blandings Castle.
- [Angus McAllister](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/angus_mcallister.md): Lord Emsworth's dour Scottish head gardener.
- [Miss Simmons](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/miss_simmons.md): A typist at the Drones Club agency.
- [Thomas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/thomas.md): An uncle of Eve Halliday, mentioned in passing.
- [Stokes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/stokes.md): A footman at Blandings Castle.
- [Comrade Walderwick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/leave_it_to_psmith_se/characters/comrade_walderwick.md): A poet and member of the Drones Club.

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