" This has led to problems as he is regularly volunteered for troublesome tasks — he muses in Jeeves in the Offing that " whenever there is dirty work to be undertaken at the crossroads, the cry that goes around my little circle is always ' Let Wooster do it.

Bertie later recalls the event in Jeeves in the Offing, remembering it as " an outstanding exhibition ... setting up a mark at which all future orators would shoot in vain.

* Jeeves in the Offing ( 1960 ) – a Jeeves novel ( chap.

The eighth Jeeves novel, Jeeves in the Offing chronicles another visit by Bertie Wooster to his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court, and marks the beginning of a friendship between Bertie and Sir Roderick Glossop, who in previous novels shared a great dislike for one another.

In Jeeves in the Offing they are married.

He later becomes a friend of Bertie in the novel Jeeves in the Offing when he impersonates a butler named ' Swordfish ' to hide his identity from Adela Cream as Bertie's Aunt Dahlia had brought him on to investigate the sanity of Mrs. Cream's son, Wilbur Cream.

* Jeeves in the Offing

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Aunt Agatha, Bertie Wooster's least favourite aunt, and a counterpoint to her sister, Bertie's Aunt Dahlia.

Bertram Wilberforce " Bertie " Wooster is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse.

Bertie ’ s middle name, “ Wilberforce ”, is the doing of his father, who won money on a horse named Wilberforce in the Grand National the day before Bertie was born and insisted on Bertie carrying that name ( mentioned in Much Obliged, Jeeves ).

In that story the family name is Mannering-Phipps, not Wooster, and the story has never been included in collections of Jeeves and Wooster materials, however the incidents described in " Extricating Young Gussie " are referred to in later stories.

Another aunt by marriage, Aunt Emily, Claude and Eustace's mother, is mentioned in The Inimitable Jeeves.

In the early years he is rather given to sudden and short-lived infatuations, under the influence of which he proposes to Florence Craye ( in Jeeves Takes Charge, the second story in terms of publication and the first in the internal timeline of the books ), to Pauline Stoker, and to Bobbie Wickham.

The cure is remarkably effective, and Bertie hires Jeeves immediately.

According to the text, Bertie is 24 when he hires Jeeves.

When Jeeves expresses disapproval of a particular article of Bertie's clothing or grooming, be it a brightly-coloured cummerbund, a check suit, purple socks, white mess jacket, various hats or even a moustache, it is certain that it will be disposed of by the end of the story, sometimes after a period of coolness between the two.

Jeeves frequently displays mastery over a vast range of subjects from philosophy ( his favourite philosopher is Spinoza ) to an encyclopedic knowledge of poetry, science, history, psychology, geography, politics and literature.

His mental prowess is attributed to eating fish, according to Bertie, and the latter often offers the dish to Jeeves.

More importantly Jeeves is disagreeable to the prospect of his master's matrimonial alliance, as any prospective wife would likely dethrone him as the " true master " of the Wooster household.

Although Bertie himself is, as Jeeves puts it, " mentally negligible ", his descriptive style employs a considerable facility with English.

In the Granada Television series Jeeves and Wooster, Bertie is depicted as being a very capable pianist and singer, making use of actor / musician Hugh Laurie's musical talents.

In the fictional biography Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman by Northcote Parkinson, Bertie comes into the title of Lord Yaxley upon the death of his uncle George Wooster, marries Bobbie Wickham and makes Jeeves the landlord of the Angler's Rest pub, which is on the Yaxley estate.

The Lovecraftian menaces are driven off by Jeeves with the assistance of Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Carnacki, and Orlando, but not before Gussie Fink-Nottle's brain is surgically removed ( a condition that, in the end, causes no real difference in his behavior ).

* St John's Wood is the home of fictional characters Bingo and Rosie Little in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster books.

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy television programme adapted by Clive Exton from P. G.

The theme ( called " Jeeves and Wooster ") is an original piece of music in the jazz / swing style written by composer Anne Dudley for the programme.

Augustus " Gussie " Fink-Nottle (' Spink-Bottle ' to Bertie's Aunt Dahlia ) is a fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a possible member of the Drones Club.

The scene in Right Ho, Jeeves in which Gussie, thoroughly inebriated due to Jeeves and later Bertie Wooster lacing his orange juice with gin, as well as his massive drink of whisky, gives a speech at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School is often cited as among the finest vignettes of English comic literature.

Likewise, P. G. Wodehouse used the phrase " Nigger minstrels " in Thank You, Jeeves ( 1934 ), the first Jeeves – Bertie novel, in admiration of their artistry and musical tradition.

In the story " Bertie Changes His Mind " he mentions a sister who has three daughters, referred to by Jeeves as Mrs Scholfield ( although in the later novel Thank You, Jeeves he states that he has no sisters during a conversation with Lord " Chuffy " Chuffnell ).

* Right Ho, Jeeves ( 1934 ) – a Jeeves novel

* The Code of the Woosters ( 1938 ) – a Jeeves novel

* The Mating Season ( 1949 ) – a Jeeves novel

* Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves ( 1963 ) – a Jeeves novel

Ring for Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 April 1953 by Herbert Jenkins, London and in the United States on 15 April 1954 by Simon & Schuster, New York, under the title The Return of Jeeves.

The novel features one of Wodehouse's best-known characters, Jeeves.

It is the only Jeeves novel in which his employer, Bertie Wooster, does not appear ( though he is mentioned ).

* Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves ( 1963 )-a Jeeves novel

* Aunts Aren't Gentlemen ( 1974, U. S. title: The Cat-nappers )-a Jeeves novel

Wodehouse novel " The Inimitable Jeeves " Bertie Wooster states that his cousins " looked at each other, like those chappies in the poem, with a wild surmise.

Bolton's play, Come On, Jeeves centred on one of Wodehouse's best-known characters ; Wodehouse later adapted the play as the novel Ring for Jeeves.

Right Ho, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves.