A solo episode. Ian delves into two short story cycles, The Kid Brady stories (1905-7) and A Man Of Means (1914, with C. H. Bovill) which posthumously were collected into a single volume. The Kid Brady stories are boxing tales set in New York, while A Man of Means is a quasi-novella wherein a hapless clerk from Bury St Edmonds inadvertently keeps getting richer and richer. There will be spoilers.
CN: brief discussion of racism
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Over Seventy
Psmith Journalist
The Prince and Betty
The Gold Bat
The White Feather
The Coming of Bill AKA The White Hope
The Reggie Pepper Stories
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Indiscretions of Archie
Something Fresh
Not George Washington (with H W Westbrook)
Nuts and Wine (Revue) (with C H Bovill)
The Globe By The Way Book (with H W Westbrook)
Big Money
Bachelors Anonymous
Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
Reference works consulted or mentioned
madameeulalie.org
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Garrison and Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (third edition)
David Jasen P. G. Wodehouse: Portrait of a Master
Also mentioned
Kid McCoy
Too many other real life boxers to mention
Jack Johnson vs James J Jeffries
Damon Runyan
Randy Newman, Short People (song)
Harold Begbie, The Curious and Diverting Adventures of Sir John Sparrow, Bart.
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Seymour Hicks, The Gay Gordons (musical comedy)
Phyllis Bedells
C H Bovill, Honi Soit (revue)
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Tobias Smollett, Roderick Random
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
George Barr McCutcheon, Brewster's Millions
The Bumpkin Billionaires, comic strip originally in Whoopee comic
Guglielmo Marconi
Wodehousekeeping Podcast links
email: wodehousekeeping@gmail.com
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