Ian is joined by his old friend Sarah Humphrey to talk about The Adventures of Sally AKA Mostly Sally from 1922. A sort of sister novel to Jill the Reckless, again based on Wodehouse's experience in the world of Broadway musical comedies. The novel reflects its time with talk of financial speculation, prohibition, Spanish flu and boxing. Most notably perhaps, the independent spirit and good sense of not just the heroine but other female characters arguably reflects a spirit of feminism.
There will be plot spoilers.
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Reference works consulted
N. T. Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
The Cabaret Girl (musical, with George Grossmith and Jerome Kern)
Jill the Reckless
Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
\"At Geisenheimer's\"
Piccadilly Jim
The Luck of the Bodkins
Also mentioned
Jeeves and Wooster (TV show)
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Jerome Kern
Guy Bolton
George Grossmith Jr
George Grossmith Sr
Gilbert and Sullivan
G & W Grossmith, The Diary of a Nobody
Charles Dickens, Little Dorritt
Martha Finley, The Elsie books
Lee, Sam and Jacob Shubert
Abraham Erlanger
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Sally (Bolton/Kern musical)
Marcus Aurelius
Song snippets
Noel Coward, \"The Stately Homes of England\" and \"Dear Little Café\"
Wodehouse/Jerome Kern, \"Napoleon\"
Grey/Kern, \"Sally\"
David Devant and his Spirit Wife, \"Ginger\" (and \"Sally\")
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