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	P. G. Wodehouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wodehouse, called "Plum" by most family and friends, was born prematurely to Eleanor Wodehouse whilst she was visiting Guildford.
		Although Wodehouse and his novels are considered quintessentially English, from 1924 on he lived in France and the United States, and in 1955 he became an American citizen.
		Wodehouse was a prolific author, writing ninety-six books in a career spanning from 1902 to 1975.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wodehouse (1139 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Jeeves vs. Pooh
		P.G. Wodehouse, naive in politics, was precise and prolific in his writing, and left a legacy of the unforgettable characters of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves.
		Wodehouse, on the other hand, was famous for a steady stream of brilliant comic novels, written in a style, a unique whip-up of vernacular and high-flown allusion, that he had been honing for decades.
		Wodehouse's run-in with the 20th century -- the one actual Event in his life -- was in the strictest sense tragic: His greatest artistic gift, his essential levity, was mercilessly revealed as his greatest moral flaw, and the beauty of his comic style was reduced to a ghastly mechanical flippancy.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/12/26/jeeves_vs_pooh?pg=full (1686 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse - Free Online Library
		Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford, Surrey, as the son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse, a British judge in Hong Kong, and Eleanor (Deane) Wodehouse.
		Wodehouse's father did not approve of his writing, and after graduating in 1900 he worked two years at the London branch of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
		Wodehouse was attacked in England, and he was not able to return to his home country for fear of prosecution.
	wodehouse.thefreelibrary.com (998 words)

	Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse
		Wodehouse, who knew just what was expected of authors, was used to having to apologise for a childhood that was "as normal as rice-pudding" and a life that consisted of little more than "sitting in front of the typewriter and cursing a bit".
		Particular to Wodehouse are the transferred epithets: "I lit a rather pleased cigarette", or, "I pronged a moody forkful of eggs and b".
		Wodehouse liked to mock himself for not seeing straight away that he had hit a rich seam with Jeeves, but in fact it was only two years later that he wrote four more stories.
	www.pgwodehousebooks.com /fry.htm (2721 words)

	Articles By ShashiTharoor
		Americans know Wodehouse from re-runs of earlier TV versions of his short stories on programmes with names such as Masterpiece Theatre, but these have a limited audience, even though some of his funniest stories were set in Hollywood and he lived the last three decades of his life in Remsenberg, Long Island.
		Part of Wodehouse's appeal to Indians certainly lies in the uniqueness of his style, which inveigled us into a sort of conspiracy of universalism: his humour was inclusive, for his mock-serious generalisations were, of course, as absurd to those he was ostensibly writing about as to us.
		Evelyn Waugh worshipped Wodehouse's penchant for tossing off original similes: "a soul as grey as a stevedore's undervest"; "her face was shining like the seat of a bus driver's trousers"; "a slow, pleasant voice, like clotted cream made audible"; "she looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression".
	www.shashitharoor.com /articles/guardian/woosters.html (2052 words)

	The genius of Wodehouse by Roger Kimball
		Wodehouse (the name, by the way, is pronounced “Woodhouse”) was amazingly prolific; as Frances Donaldson notes, no one knows the exact extent of his output because, when young, he often wrote under other people’s names or noms de plume.
		Donaldson describes Wodehouse’s mother as a “stupid woman” whose “actions continually suggest that her emotions were as undeveloped as her intellect.” She certainly seems not to have been overly burdened by the maternal instinct.
		Wodehouse did have a classical education, but he himself drew attention to the importance of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, “that indispensable adjunct to literary success.” He was not a scholar, much less was he an intellectual: a class of people that he rather feared and disliked but that he nevertheless managed to entertain mightily.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/19/oct00/wodeh.htm (4468 words)

	AllRefer.com - P. G. Wodehouse (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		For over 70 years Wodehouse entertained readers with his comic novels and stories set in an England that is forever Edwardian and featuring idiotic youths, feckless debutantes, redoubtable aunts, and stuffy businessmen.
		Early in his career, Wodehouse was also a lyricist, writing some 400 songs, more than half of them in collaboration with Jerome Kern, and contributing to the books of several musicals by other composers, including Anything Goes (1934).
		Wodehouse emigrated to the United States in 1910 and became a citizen in 1955.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wodehous.html (316 words)

	Orwell defends Wodehouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wodehouse was also censured for using (in the interview with Flannery) the phrase ‘whether Britain wins the war or not’, and he did not make things better by describing in another broadcast the filthy habits of some Belgian prisoners among whom he was interned.
		When Flannery met Wodehouse (released, but still under guard) at the Adlon Hotel in June 1941, he saw at once that he was dealing with a political innocent, and when preparing him for their broadcast interview he had to warn him against making some exceedingly unfortunate remarks, one of which was by implication slightly anti-Russian.
		Wodehouse was released two or three days before the invasion of the U.S.S.R., and at a time when the higher ranks of the Nazi party must have known that the invasion was imminent.
	www.thelooniverse.com /books/orwell.html (5566 words)

	The truth about P G Wodehouse & the Nazis
		The files also showed enquiries as to whether Wodehouse might be entitled to receive Embassy rations of soap and cigarettes; and that the German military authorities had been requested by the Embassy to see that Wodehouse's villa at Le Touquet (where he had been living before the war) be kept in good order.
		Wodehouse was captured and sent to an internment camp at Tost in Upper Silesia.
		Plack emphasized to me very strongly that the whole point of releasing Wodehouse, and persuading him to broadcast, was that he was not a Nazi sympathizer, that he was not a collaborator and that he was not a traitor.
	www.geocities.com /indeedsir/SproatTLS.htm (2198 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: P.G. Wodehouse: Mr Mulliner speaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born in 1881, Wodehouse gave up working in a bank in 1902, and from then on he had a string of successes both in the book world and in the theatre (his first play opened in New York in 1911).
		The result was that Wodehouse readers seldom raised their heads for a decade or two.
		But the date shows in the spelling: we have to-day, and to-morrow, whereas today we would omit the hyphens; we have sha'n't, which is technically correct, but today we have dropped one of the apostrophes; and we have week end for weekend; and so forth.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2005/04/pg-wodehouse-mr-mulliner-speaking.html (1826 words)

	The Russian Wodehouse Society :: wodehouse.ru
		Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born in 1881 in Guildford, the son of a civil servant, and educated at Dulwich College.
		Wodehouse said, 'I believe there are two ways of writing novels.
		Wodehouse married in 1914 and took American citizenship in 1955.
	wodehouse.ru (370 words)

	ROBERT A. HALL: The Persecution of P. G. Wodehouse
		We are told[3] that the American army used the Wodehouse talks, later during the war, as prize examples of subtle anti-German propaganda.
		Wodehouse was a slacker, having fought in neither war.
		The basic moral of the "Wodehouse case" is, not that it is undesirable to refrain from "hating in the plural," but that persons with such an out-look should be more aware than he was of the readiness of others to yield to emotionally based mass-hatreds or to exploit them for political purposes.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/7/3/Hall345-351.html (2180 words)

	P.G. Wodehouse, American Author - The most British of writers turns out to have been a Yank. By Robert McCrum
		The climax to the progressive Americanization of P.G. Wodehouse occurred in 1930 (and again in 1936) when he was invited by MGM to write film scripts in Hollywood.
		Wodehouse, who always affected an amiable detachment from the world, liked to dismiss his two years in California as ludicrously overpaid exercises in time-wasting.
		Wodehouse tried to justify his actions by noting that the United States was not actually at war with Nazi Germany, but it was a terrible error of judgment for which he would pay for the rest of his life.
	www.slate.com /?id=2064180 (1702 words)

	The Wodehouse Conservative
		With the recent reissuing from Overlook Press of several Wodehouse classics, a couple of writers I admire took the occasion to do a plug for Plum, as the man was known to friends and family.
		If Wodehouse appeals more prominently to conservatives, here in America anyway, then it is to their little-mentioned eccentric side, their occasional embrace of a festive mood and farcical manner.
		Wodehouse is the conservative's Oscar Wilde--the key example of a most sweet frivolity, a landmark, a fixed point by which we navigate our way back and forth to the happy club where we join our friends for a drink and take in the pleasure of being alive.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/727mvhkj.asp?pg=2 (702 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Wodehouse by Robert McCrum
		He concedes that Wodehouse's rare sunniness of outlook, optimism and refusal to allow darkness to shadow his life allowed him to 'cope' better than others, but still for him the childhood was not so much a breeze as an icy gale.
		Wodehouse's upbringing was, of course, no more bleak and isolated than that of millions of his contemporaries and to interpret his life according to our contemporary moral and psychological shibboleths seems misguided to me. People judge their fortune not by absolutes, but by comparison with others.
		At several stages in his literary career Wodehouse repeated his own plots or went so far as to borrow or buy the plots of others, yet McCrum suddenly claims: 'The plot-making was always the part he revelled in,' which certainly runs counter to orthodox Wodehousian belief.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/classics/0,6121,1297464,00.html (1181 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) was a prolific English comic writer whose career spanned nearly seventy years.
		Many consider Wodehouse as second only to (English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)) Charles Dickens in fecundity of character invention.
		The Jeeves stories are a valuable compendium of pre-World War II English slang in use, perhaps most closely mirrored in (additional info and facts about American literature) American literature by the work of (United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)) Damon Runyon.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/p/p._g._wodehouse.htm (1322 words)

	Heil Wodehouse
		Wodehouse’s jewelry, loans from friends, the sale of the movie rights from one of Wodehouse’s novels to a Berlin film company, and from the sale of a short story to a French newspaper.
		Wodehouse’s American fans had sent him numerous letters and food parcels, and he had wanted to thank them and to know he was all right.
		In it, Connor called Wodehouse a rich playboy who had remained in Le Touquet to gamble, and was throwing a cocktail party when the Germans arrested him.
	yoyogod.20m.com /Heil.htm (3215 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse
		Pelham ("Plum") Grenville Wodehouse (pronounced "Woodhouse") was the greatest writer in English of this century--but sadly overlooked by most `serious' critics because he wrote comedy and lyrics for musicals.
		One of Wodehouse's foremost admirers was Evelyn Waugh.
		Today, Wodehouse is not as famous as he should be--at least among the lay public.
	www.drones.com /wodehouse (509 words)

	A Celebration of P G Wodehouse - Home Page
		P G Wodehouse is considered by many to be the master of the English comic novel, and writers as diverse as Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Hilaire Belloc, V S Pritchett, Tom Sharpe and Douglas Adams have acknowledged him as one of the finest English prose writers of the twentieth century.
		Although most of Wodehouse's stories can be enjoyed just as they are, the depth of his comic talent becomes even more evident if one is able to recognise the very many allusions and quotations with which his work is packed.
		In fact, one of the characteristics of Wodehouse's style of humour is the manner in which he uses quotations — from the Bible, Shakespeare, the English classics, popular fiction, even from popular songs of his day — often mangling them in his own unique fashion.
	www.aowy95.dsl.pipex.com /Wodehouse/Index.html (679 words)

	USATODAY.com - Biographer humanizes the Wodehouse wit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wodehouse was enormously popular and well compensated for his books and song lyrics.
		Among the most endearing aspects of Wodehouse's character was his lifelong financial support for a boarding school pal whose literary dreams never panned out.
		In the end, McCrum pays Wodehouse the compliment of treating his work seriously without losing sight of the truth embodied in novelist Christopher Buckley's comment on Wodehouse: "It is impossible to be unhappy while reading the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster."
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2005-03-21-wodehouse_x.htm (922 words)

	Evelyn Waugh and P. G. Wodehouse
		Evelyn Waugh is perhaps most known to Wodehouse fans as the person whose glowing review graces the back of the Penguin editions of the Wodehouse books.
		A later generation may take Mr Wodehouse literally and suppose that his was merely the language of his day.
		Literary characters may survive either through being so real and round that they are true of any age and race, or through being so stylized that they carry their own world with them.
	www.drones.com /waugh.html (831 words)

	P. G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page
		Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was an English humorist who wrote novels, short stories, plays, lyrics, and essays, all with the same light touch of gentle satire.
		Throughout his stories, Wodehouse presents a view of the world which differs from -- his fans would say, improves upon -- the focus most people have.
		For a variety of reasons, pigs, newts, and statues of the Infant Samuel at Prayer play significant roles in the Wodehousian view, while such things as death, taxes, and work are crowded towards the O. wings.
	www.smart.net /~tak/wodehouse.html (236 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Plum Sauce: A Wodehouse Companion: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For the committed Wodehouse reader his books present a world entirely of their own with characters reappearing in cameos throughout the series of books stretching over seventy years.
		Wodehouse weaves such deliciously complex (yet simple) plots and the characters are drawn so quickly that this should be at the elbow of every dedicated fan.
		Wodehouse, P. i.e., each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091885124 (792 words)

	Wodehouse Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Wodehouse is getting education at Dulwich College, where he is a member of school cricket team, (he will not loose his interest in the local cricket tournament for many years later!) Also he practises in boxing there.
		At that time Wodehouse meets people close to musicals circles, and wrote lyrics and takes part in creation of musical shows.
		At age of 33 (1914) Pelham Grenville Wodehouse married Ethel Newton, 29, a widow whom he had met in New York eight weeks earlier.
	ssmith.wodehouse.ru /biogeng.html (755 words)

	Wodehouse, P. G. on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After a short period, first working at a bank and then writing for a London newspaper, he became a full-time fiction writer.
		In 1941, while he was a prisoner of the Germans, he made five nonpolitical broadcasts for his captors, provoking considerable criticism at home.
		Wodehouse, who from 1910 on had lived for long periods in the United States or France, immigrated to the United States in 1947, settled on Long Island, N.Y., and became an American citizen in 1955.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wodehous.asp (428 words)

	The Wodehouse Society
		Our members include everyone from lifelong fans to people who have only recently discovered Wodehouse's works, from serious rare-book collectors to academic scholars of literature, and from those who go around warbling his songs to folks who didn't even know he was involved in musical theatre.
		The Wodehouse Society is a member of the International Wodehouse Association, which links the various Wodehouse societies around the world.
		Membership dues for The Wodehouse Society are US$20 per year (for one or two members at a single mailing address anywhere in the world) until January 1, 2006.
	www.wodehouse.org /tws.html (877 words)

	Article written by Stephen Fry
		And that is the point, really: one of the gorgeous privileges of reading Wodehouse is that he makes us feel better about ourselves because we derive a sense of personal satisfaction from the laughter mutually created.
		Chronology, with Wodehouse, is not necessarily reliable or relevant, but it seems sensible to describe his creations in a more or less historical order — an order compromised by his tendency to introduce a character in a short story and only later pick up and, as it were, run with the ball.
		Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today — whatever that may be.
	ssmith.wodehouse.ru /fryartcl.html (2711 words)

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