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Love in the Time of Wodehouse: Chiefly About Chickens

February 14, 2020August 9, 2020 Honoria Plum

Better to have loved and lost, and bunged the whole thing down on paper, than never to have loved at all. Continue reading Love in the Time of Wodehouse: Chiefly About Chickens

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Finding Plumtopia, P.G. Wodehouse, Society Spice54 Comments

A Visit to the Wodehouse family archives

November 5, 2016November 13, 2016 Honoria Plum

On a beautiful autumn day, I left London’s Victoria Station for the glorious Sussex countryside to visit the home of Sir Edward Cazalet, P.G. Wodehouse’s step-grandson. I had met Edward and his wife Camilla, Lady Cazalet, in London during the summer, and they generously invited me to visit their home to view the family’s archive of Wodehouse materials. The train journey was a pleasant, uneventful affair, which did not seem, to me, to be in quite the proper Wodehouse spirit. I ought to have been playing ‘Persian Monarchs’ with a genial stranger, or thumbing through a volume of poems by … Continue reading A Visit to the Wodehouse family archives

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Finding Plumtopia, P.G. Wodehouse, The Great Romances18 Comments

The Great Wodehouse Romances: The true romance of PG & Ethel Wodehouse

February 13, 2016May 13, 2022 Honoria Plum

Each February at Plumtopia I take a break from my usual pontifications to celebrate some of the ‘Great Romances’ from P.G. Wodehouse’s work, to mark the anniversary of his death on St Valentine’s Day, 1975. This year, I’d like to … Continue reading The Great Wodehouse Romances: The true romance of PG & Ethel Wodehouse

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Blandings Centenary: Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse

June 21, 2015September 1, 2019 Honoria Plum

It’s a special week for P.G. Wodehouse fans. June 26th will mark 100 years since the first Blandings story, Something Fresh, was serialised in the ‘Saturday Evening Post’. It was published in book form in September that year (in the … Continue reading Blandings Centenary: Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse

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Was P. G. Wodehouse squeamish about sex?

June 30, 2013January 1, 2019 Honoria Plum

Originally posted on EMSWORTH:
We don’t mean this in a negative way, but the fact can’t be avoided: the Master wasn’t comfortable with sex. Not once in dozens of comic novels and hundreds of short stories with romantic plots, does any P. G. Wodehouse character indulge in the carnal passions, on-stage or off. Considering that people probably joke about sex more than anything else, it’s almost astonishing how well Wodehouse got by as a comic writer without it. Wodehouse wasn’t prudish in other respects. Bertie Wooster and his fellow Drones drink themselves silly, commit petty burglaries, fritter money away at… Continue reading Was P. G. Wodehouse squeamish about sex?