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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Piccadilly Jim, the play. 2.—Reception

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Previous sections: 1.—Introduction. Writing and production Reception The reviews of Piccadilly Jim were mostly positive at first, but towar...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Piccadilly Jim, the play. 1.—Introduction. Writing and production

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Introduction At some point between 1917 and 1919 Wodehouse and Bolton collaborated on a theatrical adaptation of  Piccadilly Jim  for Americ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The Hunting of the Borneo Wire-Snake

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In chapter 7 of Wodehouse's The Girl on the Boat  Eustace Hignett relates his first meeting with Jane Hubbard, the famous big-game hunte...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

A Gentleman of Leisure: a variorum edition

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 A Gentleman of Leisure  (variorum edition, PDF) This is the third project of its kind I've completed. It is out of schedule: the next o...
Monday, January 27, 2025

George Morrow's "Sports" Series

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Wodehouse's "forgotten sports" gag spans 46 years: Forgotten Sports of the Past—Splitting the Straw. ( The Little Warrior ch....
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Thursday, October 10, 2024

The Boy: What Will He Become?

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In chapter II of his more or less autobiographical book Over Seventy (1957) Wodehouse comments on the financial vicissitudes of his househo...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Jimmy Pitt, Spike Mullins and Ulysses

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There is a curious symmetry between the first and last chapters of Wodehouse's A Gentleman of Leisure ( The Intrusion of Jimmy in the ...