Tuesday, December 30, 2008

P. G. Wodehouse Update

What ho, Jeeves, they’ve found our ancestors - Times Online: "The story features an aristocrat and a butler — yet the faithful old servant exerts a subtle mastery over his boss.

The familiar-sounding duo are not Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, but characters created earlier in a similar style by the same writer, PG Wodehouse.

The story, Providence and the Butler, can be read in full in today’s Sunday Times Magazine for the first time since 1910.

It has been lost since it was published in a literary magazine produced by the Washington Herald when Wodehouse was 29 and working for thePlum” Wodehouse’s work, it shows some of the thinking behind not just the Jeeves and Wooster stories but also the Blandings Castle books, begun in 1915 and also set in an ancient stately home."

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