Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

Wodehouse wrote in one of his Jeeves and Wooster stories, " Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit " ( 1955 ), " Well, you know what magistrates are.

Wodehouse in his review of the first Flashman novel that came to his attention: " Now I understand what that ‘ when a new planet swims into his ken ’ excitement is all about.

Lord Emsworth is consistently presented just shy of sixty ; since Wodehouse wrote about him for over half a century, in novels more or less set in the present, this means that his dates vary depending on what one is reading.

Bolton wrote the book ; the lyrics were by Herbert Reynolds and P. G. Wodehouse, the latter writing with Bolton for the first time in what became a lifelong working partnership and personal friendship.

It was published earlier than the Jeeves books ( in 1912, according to ' Gutenberg ', can be found in what Gutenberg calls a ' Wodehouse Miscellany '), but Florence is years older.

In the final chapters of The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse the major characters use a jellygraph to produce a school magazine at very short notice.

" On Sunday we jellygraph it ", writes Wodehouse without explanation.

* " Wilberforce " is the middle name of Bertie Wooster, a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse

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.

She then married Spenser Gregson, who is her husband for most of the Wodehouse canon, though he dies in time for her to marry Craye, who had by then become Lord Worplesdon, Earl of Worplesdon, whereupon she becomes Lady Worplesdon.

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

Wodehouse himself attended a school by that name, located in Kearsney, Kent ; however, the Malvern House which appears in the stories is located in the fictional town of Bramley-on-Sea.

( P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster ; Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate, as is Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

The Three Musketeers is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml.

Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 25, 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 4, 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

Both Schulberg and Wodehouse describe the methods of all those would-be screenwriters and actors hunting for jobs, but Wodehouse's depiction is not at all serious or critical.

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.

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.

Dahlia Travers ( née Wooster ) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's bonhomous, red-faced Aunt Dahlia.

The novel is dedicated: " To P. G. Wodehouse — whose books and stories have brightened my life for many years.

Wodehouse is an English surname and may refer to:

* The novel Something Fishy by P. G. Wodehouse features a similar tontine, except it is the investors ' sons that stand to gain from marrying late.

* Sudeley is regarded by many as the model for Blandings Castle in the novels by P. G. Wodehouse.

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth ( Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ), home to many of his family, and setting for numerous tales and adventures, written between 1915 and 1975.

Stourbridge Golf Course is also mentioned by P. G. Wodehouse.

Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth, or Lord Emsworth, is a recurring fictional character in the Blandings stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

Uncle Dynamite is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1948 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on December 3, 1948 by Didier & Co., New York.

Major Brabazon-Plank, later Major Plank, is a recurring fictional character from the Uncle Fred and Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a famed explorer who led an expedition up the Amazon but is afraid of babies.

* The Wodehouse, a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history

* The Wodehouse, an English country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history

The series of stories which take place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the " Blandings books ", or indeed, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, " the Blandings Castle Saga ".< ref >

* The Wodehouse, formerly spelled the Woodhouse, a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history.

Wodehouse against charges of being a Nazi sympathiser, a defence based on Wodehouse's lack of interest in and ignorance of politics.

Though Ukridge never achieved the gigantic popularity of the same author's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse retained a certain fondness for him, his last appearance in a Wodehouse story being as late as 1966.

Madeline Bassett is a recurring character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of the young women to whom Bertie Wooster periodically finds himself threateningly engaged.

Roderick Spode, Bt, 7th Earl of Sidcup, often known as Spode or Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being an " amateur Dictator " and the leader of a fictional fascist group in London called The Black Shorts

Montague " Monty " Bodkin ( also referred to as Montrose ) is a recurring fictional character in three novels of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a wealthy young member of the Drones Club, tall, slender and lissom, well-dressed, well-spoken, impeccably polite, and generally in some kind of romantic trouble.

Brinkley Court is a recurring fictional location, a country house in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Tom and Dahlia Travers.

In this novel there are echoes of the comedy of P. G. Wodehouse, with the hapless Ned being persuaded to get involved in clandestine activities in country houses, particularly sneaking Terence's dog Cyril into his room so he does not have to sleep in the stable, as Mrs. Mering has decreed.

Richard P. " Bingo " Little is a recurring fictional character from the Drones and the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club.

Rupert Psmith ( or Ronald Eustace Psmith, as he is called in the last of the four books in which he appears ) is a recurring fictional character in several novels by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.

Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little.

Percival " Percy " Craye, later Earl of Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being Agatha Gregson's second husband, who would have been her first but for Agatha's discovering that he had behaved shamefully at a ball at Covent Garden, whereupon she broke their engagement and married Spenser Gregson instead.

Alexander Charles " Oofy " Prosser is a recurring fictional character from the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the millionaire member of the Drones Club and a friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster.

" The Reverent Wooing of Archibald " is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a part of the Mr Mulliner series and related to the Drones Club series.