In Roald Dahl's book, what is the name of Matilda's teacher, who is the niece of headmistress, Miss Trunchbull?
Miss Trunchbull Miss Trunchbull Miss Agatha Trunchbull, also known as Miss Trunchbull or simply The Trunchbull, is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (Crunchem Hall Elementary School in the 1996 film) and one of the main antagonists in Roald Dahl's book and the film, "Matilda", said to look "more like an eccentric and rather bloodthirsty follower of the stag-hounds than the headmistress of a nice school for children". Miss Trunchbull is depicted as being a "gigantic holy terror, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened the life out of pupils and teachers alike" notorious for her wildly excessive and idiosyncratic discipline:
Miss Trunchbull physical abuse as a little girl, rendered her quite soft-spoken and timid. Jennifer admitted that she became Agatha's slave, and performed the chores and housework. Once Jennifer graduated school and teachers' training college, Agatha seized hold of Jennifer's salary. Out of adoration for her schoolteacher, Matilda used her telekinetic abilities to drive Agatha from her own house one day by posing as Magnus's spirit and levitating a chalk stick to scrawl a message on the board. Terrified, Miss Trunchbull subsequently vanishes, and gives back her house to her niece, and is replaced by Mr. Tribly (however, in the film, Miss