Misquoted or misadvised aphorisms are frequently used as a source of humour ; for instance, wordplays of aphorisms appear in the works of P. G. Wodehouse, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.

* Sebastian Beach, from the Blandings Castle stories by P. G. Wodehouse, of intimidating majesty but nonetheless a good soul who frequently co-conspires with the clever Gally Threepwood.

Cricket popped up frequently in his novels and short stories, and the anthology Wodehouse at the Wicket, edited by Murray Hedgcock, is an attempt to capture the Master's writings about his favorite sport.

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.

Wodehouse adapted the story from a play, Come On, Jeeves, that he had written with his lifelong friend and collaborator Guy Bolton.

P. G. Wodehouse, Bolton's friend and collaborator

Although Bolton worked mostly in the West End in the 1930s, his biggest hit of the decade began on Broadway, a collaboration with his old friend Wodehouse, who had by then largely abandoned the theatre for novel-writing.

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.

Performing Flea is a non-fiction book, consisting of a series of letters written by P. G. Wodehouse to William Townend, a friend of Wodehouse since their schooldays together at Dulwich College.

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.

Although Wodehouse dedicated books to 43 different people, the identity of " Biddy O ' Sullivan " was not known until 2006, when she was identified as the young daughter of one Denis O ' Sullivan ( 1869-1908 ), an actor and singer who was a friend of Wodehouse in the early 1900s.

* Classics of Humour ( Dickens, Charles ; O ' Brien, Flann ; Saki ; Thurber, James ; Twain, Mark ; Waugh, Evelyn ; Wilde, Oscar, Wodehouse, P G, et al., authors ); O ' Mara, Michael ( ed ), Donald Rooum ( Illustrator ) 1976 Book Club Associates ASIN B0010S72HK, 1976 Constable and Company ISBN 0-09-461440-7

The White Feather is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 9 October 1907 by Adam & Charles Black, London.

The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London.

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 ).

As with other writers he had read while at St Cyprian's Prep school ,-Kipling, Wodehouse, Swift, Shaw, Thackeray-his loyalty, " was virtually unwavering.

* The Cabaret Girl ( Music: Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith, Jr .) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19 and ran for 361 performances

Attempts at accommodation made by the governor of Cape Colony ( Sir Philip Wodehouse ) failed, and war between the Free State and Moshoeshoe was renewed in 1865.

* P. G. Wodehouse – Sunset at Blandings ( posthumous )

* Caliban at Sunset, a poem by P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

Armine Wodehouse, was also a Liberal politician but died at an early age.

In fiction, Jeeves from the stories by P. G. Wodehouse regularly holidays at the town, spending much of his time there fishing.

The book also won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for comic literature at the Hay Festival in 2003, and earned the author a James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.

P. G. Wodehouse set several episodes of his early school stories in Aldershot, at a convocation of British public school athletes.

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 >

" Bolton and Wodehouse were in England at the time and were thus no longer available, so Freedley turned to his director, Howard Lindsay, to write a new book.

Westbrook worked at a school in the town, and Wodehouse also mentions it in his 1909 novel Mike, as the place where Mike was at school prior to Wrykyn.

* A Wodehouse biography, with details of his time at the real Emsworth

John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse, at age 23

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.

In the 1946 novel by P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the morning, Bertie Wooster attempts to use treacle and brown paper to muffle the sound of broken glass while trying to fake a robbery at the home of his Aunt Agatha and her husband, Lord Worplesdon.

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.

Kern, who already knew Wodehouse, introduced him to Bolton at the premiere of Very Good Eddie.

Though he was prepared to dislike Wodehouse, the interview became the start of a lifelong friendship and publishing relationship.

In November 1926, she became the first British performer to star in an American musical on Broadway when she opened in Oh, Kay !, with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

Tregelles was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth, of Quaker parents, but he himself for many years was in communion with the Plymouth Brethren and then later in life became a Presbyterian ( or perhaps an Anglican ).

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was Hollywood CC's first secretary the same year he became the highest paid script writer in Hollywood.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also compares his verse with that of W. S. Gilbert and suggests that his prose was an early influence on P. G. Wodehouse.