Ian is re-rejoined by Gwen Sheldon to look at THE FIRST JEEVES BOOK (if you think it counts): My Man Jeeves, a UK only collection of eight short stories, half of which are among the earliest Jeeves stories, all set in New York. The other half are Reggie Pepper stories, Reggie being an early prototype of Bertie Wooster. We also look at the three other Reggie Pepper stories that were published in magazines but were left out of the book collections during The Master's lifetime.
There will be spoilers.
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Stories covered in this episode:
\"Leave it to Jeeves\"
\"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest\"
\"Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg\"
\"Absent Treatment\"
\"Helping Freddie\"
\"Rallying Round Old George\"
\"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good\"
\"The Aunt and the Sluggard\"
\"Disentangling Old Percy\"
\"Concealed Art\"
\"The Test Case\"
Reference works consulted
Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories
Carry On Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves
\"Jeeves Takes Charge\"
\"Extricating Young Gussie\"
\"Bertie Changes His Mind\"
The Adventures of Sally
\"Rough-Hew them How We Will\"
Love Among the Chickens
Something Fresh
A Gentleman of Leisure
\"The Fatal Kink in Algernon\"
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
\"Fixing it for Freddie
\"Unpleasantness at Kozy Kot\"
A Few Quick Ones (US version)
\"Deep Waters\"
Brother Alfred (play/film)
Not George Washington
The Globe By the Way Book
Thank You Jeeves
Piccadilly Jim
\"George and Alfred\"
Plum Pie
\"Jeeves Makes an Omelette\"
A Few Quick Ones
\"The Wigmore Venus\"
\"Archibald's Benefit\"
Also alluded to:
Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap
Ian Carmichael and Dennis Price, \"What Would I Do Without You, Jeeves?\"
Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff
R Outcault, Buster Brown
James Sant, The Soul's Awakening
Agatha Christie
Herbert Westbrook
N A Knox
F Opper, Happy Hooligan
Laurence Grossmith
George Grossmith Jr.
George Grossmith Sr. and Weedon Grossmith, Diary of a Nobody
Leslie Havergal Bradshaw
Cupid's Inspiration, \"Yesterday Has Gone\"
Billy Sunday
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Fred Stone
Making Good with Mother
Cutting Out Venus
World of Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster
Helen Wodehouse
George Herriman, The Dingbat Family and Krazy Kat
The Beatles, \"Baby's in Black\"
Boost for Birdsburg!
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