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Wodehouse and himself
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.
Five years later P. G. Wodehouse published The White Feather, a school story about apparent cowardice and the efforts a boy went to in order to redeem himself by physical combat.
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 ).
( Wodehouse himself lived in Great Neck for a time, beginning in 1918.

Wodehouse and school
As with other writers he had read while at St Cyprian's Prep school ,-Kipling, Wodehouse, Swift, Shaw, Thackeray-his loyalty, " was virtually unwavering.
P. G. Wodehouse set several episodes of his early school stories in Aldershot, at a convocation of British public school athletes.
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.
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.
Wodehouse referenced Aram even earlier, in Chapter 21 of his 1905 novel The Head of Kay's, when the hero Fenn loses his school cap in a possibly incriminating situation, and notes, when it reappears, that:
Carte was a school acquaintance of a cousin of Wodehouse at Winchester College, according to an introduction to Leave it to Psmith.
Tales of St. Austin's is a collection of short stories and essays, all with a school theme, by P. G. Wodehouse.

Wodehouse and by
" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.
And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.
Wodehouse was hailed by The Times as a " comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce " for his own ingenious wordplay.
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 ).
* Full Moon ( novel ), a novel by P. G. Wodehouse
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.
Papers released by the Public Record Office have disclosed that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir Patrick Dean, British ambassador in Washington, argued that it " would also give currency to a Bertie Wooster image of the British character, which we are doing our best to eradicate ".
* " Excelsior " ( short story ), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse
Wodehouse, Dr. Simon Sparrow in BBC Radio 4's adaptions of Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House and Doctor At Large ( 1968 ) ( currently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra ), a retired thespian in a series of six plays with Stanley Baxter Two Pipe Problems, and later the play Not Talking, commissioned for BBC Radio 3 by Mike Bartlett.
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.
* Michael " Mike " Jackson, character in the Psmith books by P. G. Wodehouse
* List of books by P. G. Wodehouse
* Mike ( novel ), a 1909 novel by P. G. Wodehouse
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.
* Caliban at Sunset, a poem by P. G. Wodehouse.
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.
Category: Novels by P. G. Wodehouse
An Index edited by Mrs. Edmund Wodehouse was issued as a separate volume in 1890.
* Laughing Gas ( novel ), a 1936 comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse
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.

Wodehouse and name
* " Wilberforce " is the middle name of Bertie Wooster, a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse
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.
The term was usually replaced in literature of the Early Modern English period by classically-derived equivalents, or " wild man ", but it survives in the form of the surname Wodehouse or Woodhouse ( for instance in the name of the author P. G. Wodehouse, or Jane Austen's character Emma Woodhouse ).
* Jeeves, created in 1915 by P. G. Wodehouse, starred in a series of stories until Wodehouse's death in 1975 ; Reginald Jeeves is considered the " personification of the perfect valet " since 1930, inspired the name of Internet search engine Ask Jeeves, and is now a generic term in dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary.
Much Obliged, Jeeves is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on October 15, 1971 by Barrie & Jenkins, London and in the United States on October 15, 1971 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the name Jeeves and the Tie that Binds.
In a late book, Down the Kitchen Sink, dedicated in memory of Gaskin, Nichols said Gaskin's first name was Reginald, and in a late book by Wodehouse, that author gives Jeeves the first name Reginald.
The author applied to Wodehouse for the right to use the name ; Wodehouse, much amused, gave his permission.
" Swordfish " is also used as a name in the P. G. Wodehouse novel How Right You Are, Jeeves.
* Reginald Jeeves, known mostly by his last name only, the personal servant to Bertie Wooster in a series of short stories and novels by P. G. Wodehouse
With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse, loosely based on his novel of the same name, music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, it is directed by George Stevens.

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