* Illustrated review ( 1999 ) by Michael Skupin at Wodehouse. org

P. G. Wodehouse published his first collection of comical stories about butler Jeeves in 1917.

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.

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.

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.

* John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley ( 1848 – 1932 ), first member of the Labour Party in the House of Lords

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 >

Wodehouse said of Flashman, " If ever there was a time when I felt that ' watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet ' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.

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.

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.

Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on March 19, 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London ; it was not published in the United States.

Armine Wodehouse, younger son of the first Earl, was a civil servant and Liberal politician.

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.

She starred opposite Leslie Howard in Candle Light, an Austrian play adapted by Wodehouse, in 1929, and in 1931 she and Noël Coward triumphed in his play Private Lives, first in the UK, and later on Broadway.

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.

The character appeared regularly throughout the first two series, the second of which also starred her actor husband, John Alderton, with whom she later starred in a spin-off, Thomas & Sarah ( 1979 ), and the sitcom No, Honestly, as well as in a series of short story adaptations called Wodehouse Playhouse ( 1975 – 78 ).

His first work with his long-time partner Howard Lindsay came in 1934, when the two men revised the P. G. Wodehouse / Guy Bolton book for the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes.

John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley ( 10 December 1848-7 January 1932 ), known as Lord Wodehouse from 1866 to 1902, was a British peer and landowner, who was the first member of the Labour Party in the House of Lords.

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.

P. G. Wodehouse in " The Little Warrior " ( 1920, English title " Jill the reckless ") describes how the character Uncle Chris, in India during his first hill-campaign, would " walk up and down in front of his men under a desultory shower of jezail-bullets ".

His first commission was on Sir Samuel Hellier's estate at the Wodehouse, near Wombourne.

The following is a complete list of books by P. G. Wodehouse, including novels and collections of short stories, sorted first by date of publication and then by recurring characters or locations.

Plum Pie is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on September 22, 1966 by Barrie & Jenkins ( under the Herbert Jenkins imprint ), and in the United States on December 1, 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York.

* Full Moon ( novel ), a novel by P. G. Wodehouse

* Mike ( novel ), a 1909 novel by P. G. Wodehouse

* Laughing Gas ( novel ), a 1936 comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse

* Heavy Weather ( novel ), a novel by P. G. Wodehouse

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

* 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.

Published in 2003, the novel was awarded the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction which included the £ 50, 000 prize.

Bonfiglioli's style and novel structure have often been favorably compared to that of P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

One of the few clues to the exact date comes towards the end of the final book in the series, where Klaus mentions he plans to read a set of novels by PG Wodehouse, which would put the novel no earlier than the 20th century.

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.

The newspaper also compared the superficial presentation in the novel to that employed by P. G. Wodehouse.

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.

Wodehouse, who wrote " I wouldn't say he was disgruntled, but

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

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.

Wodehouse assumes his reader knows exactly what a jellygraph is and alludes to its being unattractive: " This jelly business makes one beastly sticky.

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.