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Bernice Summerfield
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<p><a href="/facts/Professor/JNqot4sU">Professor</a> Bernice Surprise Summerfield, or simply Benny, is a <a href="/facts/Fiction/p1AY3Xp4">fictional</a> <a href="/facts/Character_(arts)/nvuzQRyP">character</a> created by author <a href="/facts/Paul_Cornell/CRB0gedy">Paul Cornell</a> as a new <a href="/facts/Companion_(Doctor_Who)/qS9f92vE">companion</a> of the <a href="/facts/Seventh_Doctor/37Jas7hV">Seventh Doctor</a> in <a href="/facts/Virgin_Publishing/66xsNojy">Virgin Publishing</a>'s range of original full-length <i><a href="/facts/Doctor_Who/R7X9rdLc">Doctor Who</a></i> novels, the <i><a href="/facts/Virgin_New_Adventures/5AJbXzfd">New Adventures</a></i>. The <i>New Adventures</i> were authorised novels carrying on from where the <i>Doctor Who</i> television series had left off, and Summerfield was introduced in Cornell's novel <i><a href="/facts/Love_and_War_(Cornell_novel)/hMhyb7vB">Love and War</a></i> in 1992. </p>