Ian is joined for a fifth time by Alexander Rennie of the now concluded Forgotten Towns podcast and blog. They discuss Jill the Reckless, AKA The Little Warrior, from 1920. A standalone Anglo-American novel centred around the New York stage, it includes the first mention of the Drones Club. Ian and Alex both consider this one of the stronger Wodehouse books so far covered in the podcast.
There will be plot spoilers.
Next month: Indiscretions of Archie.
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Reference works consulted
Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Frances Donaldson, ed: Yours, Plum
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Other Wodehouse works alluded to
Something Fresh
The Prince and Betty
Uneasy Money
The Adventures of Sally
Leave it to Psmith
Bill the Conqueror
Big Money
\"The Man Upstairs\"
Indiscretions of Archie
The Inimitable Jeeves
A Damsel in Distress
\"The Mixer\"
The Luck of the Bodkins
The Rose of China
\"Napoleon\" in Have A Heart
The Small Bachelor
\"Bill\" in Show Boat
Anything Goes
Psmith Journalist
Company For Henry
Also mentioned
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
John Grant
Willy Mason
Walt Mason
Flanders and Swann, \"The Safety Curtain\", \"Strike\" and \"In the D'Oyly Cart\"
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Book of Daniel, The Bible
Beastie Boys, \"Shadrach\"
David Devant and His Spirit Wife, \"Pimlico\"
The Bowes-Lyons family
Dickens, David Copperfield and Bleak House
Beachcomber (J.B. Morton), the Captain Foulenough stories
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Ian Sproat
Julian Mitchell
The Ziegfeld Follies
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger
Napoleon Bonaparte
Cockburn's Port
Rennie Heartburn and Indigestion Relief
Diet Coke
Etta James, \"I Just Want to Make Love To You\"
Automat
Omar Khayaam
Alexander Woollcott
William J Halley, \"Pullman Porters on Parade\"
Robert S. Bader, Four of the Three Musketeers
Apocrypals podcast
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals
The Orange Tree, Richmond
Patricia Hodge
Thank you for reading the notes! Typing them sometimes feels a little futile, but you make it all worthwhile.
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