• Most of Wodehouse’s fiction is set in his native United Kingdom, although he spent much of his life in the US and used New York and Hollywood as settings for some of his novels
  and short stories.

• [87] The contract started in May 1930, but the studio found little for Wodehouse to do, and he had spare time to write a novel and nine short stories.

• [46] Although it made little impact on its first publication, the 1906 novel Love Among the Chickens contained what French calls the author’s first original comic creation:
  Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge.

• [23] Reluctant banker; budding writer: 1900–1908[edit] Cover of Wodehouse’s first published novel, 1902 Wodehouse expected to follow Armine to the University of Oxford, but
  the family’s finances took a turn for the worse at the crucial moment.

• [48][n 7] Wodehouse would return to the character in short stories over the next six decades.

• [56] In May 1909 Wodehouse made his second visit to New York, where he sold two short stories to Cosmopolitan and Collier’s for a total of $500, a much higher fee than he
  had commanded previously.

• “[37] This prediction proved correct: few British writers had first-hand experience of the US, and his articles about life in New York brought him higher than usual fees.

• — The Times on Wodehouse’s honorary doctorate, June 1939[104] In 1935 Wodehouse created the last of his regular cast of principal characters, Lord Ickenham, otherwise known
  as Uncle Fred, who, in Usborne’s words, “leads the dance in four novels and a short story … a whirring dynamo of misrule”.

• [49] It was Wodehouse’s first farcical novel; it was also his first best-seller, and although his later books included some gentler, lightly sentimental stories, it was as
  a farceur that he became known.

• [71] Nonetheless, Donaldson adds, the book and lyrics for the Princess Theatre shows made the collaborators an enormous fortune and played an important part in the development
  of the American musical.

• [61] In the same year The Saturday Evening Post paid $3,500 to serialise Something New, the first of what became a series of novels set at Blandings Castle.

• He later wrote a humorous account of his experiences at the bank,[26] but at the time he longed for the end of each working day, when he could return to his rented lodgings
  in Chelsea and write.

• [29] Wodehouse in 1904, aged 23 In 1901, with the help of a former Dulwich master, William Beach Thomas, Wodehouse secured an appointment—at first temporary and later permanent—writing
  for The Globe’s popular “By the Way” column.

• [44] His lyric for Hall, “Put Me in My Little Cell”, was a Gilbertian number for a trio of comic crooks, with music by Frederick Rosse;[45] it was well received and launched
  Wodehouse on a career as a theatre writer that spanned three decades.

• [105] His other books from the decade include Right Ho, Jeeves, which Donaldson judged his best work, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, which the writer Bernard Levin considered
  the best, and Blandings Castle, which contains “Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend”, which Rudyard Kipling thought “one of the most perfect short stories I have ever read”.

• He wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies during and after the First World War, together with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, that played an important part in the development
  of the American musical.

• [38] He later recalled that “in 1904 anyone in the London writing world who had been to America was regarded with awe and looked upon as an authority on that terra incognita.

• After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time.

• [30] At around the same time his first novel was published—a school story called The Pothunters, serialised incomplete in Public School Magazine in early 1902, and issued
  in full in hardback in September.

• [n 14] Wodehouse’s signature, undated The Wodehouses returned to England, where they had a house in London for some years, but Wodehouse continued to cross the Atlantic frequently,
  spending substantial periods in New York.

• In Sproat’s phrase, she “took charge of Wodehouse’s life and made certain that he had the peace and quiet he needed to write”.

• Early in his career Wodehouse would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months.

• [28] A new magazine for boys, The Captain, provided further well-paid opportunities, and during his two years at the bank, Wodehouse had eighty pieces published in a total
  of nine magazines.

• He wrote or adapted four plays for the West End; Leave it to Psmith (1930), which he adapted in collaboration with Ian Hay, was the only one to have a long run.

• [18] He was entirely at home there; Donaldson comments that Dulwich gave him, for the first time, “some continuity and a stable and ordered life”.

• Bertie and Jeeves, Lord Emsworth and his circle, and Ukridge appeared in novels and short stories;[n 12] Psmith made his fourth and last appearance;[n 13] two new characters
  were the Oldest Member, narrating his series of golfing stories,[78] and Mr Mulliner, telling his particularly tall tales to fellow patrons of the bar at the Angler’s Rest.

• The team produced several more successes, including Leave It to Jane (1917), Oh, Boy!

• [13] Another biographer, Frances Donaldson, writes, “Deprived so early, not merely of maternal love, but of home life and even a stable background, Wodehouse consoled himself
  from the youngest age in an imaginary world of his own.

• In a 2005 study of Wodehouse in Hollywood, Brian Taves writes that Those Three French Girls (1930) was “as close to a success as Wodehouse was to have at MGM.

• [41][n 6] Wodehouse had loved theatre since his first visit, aged thirteen, when Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience had made him “drunk with ecstasy”.

• The critic R. D. B. French writes that, of Wodehouse’s work from this period, almost all that deserves to survive is the school fiction.

• These were the families of Canadian prisoners of war, and the news from Wodehouse was the first indication that their sons were alive and well.

• During the 1920s he collaborated on nine musical comedies produced on Broadway or in the West End, including the long-running Sally (1920, New York), The Cabaret Girl (1922,
  London) and Rosalie (1928, New York).

• Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life.

• [79] Various other young men-about-town appeared in short stories about members of the Drones Club.

• [n 10] These stories introduced two sets of characters about whom Wodehouse wrote for the rest of his life.

• [111] Second World War: internment and broadcasts[edit] At the start of the Second World War Wodehouse and his wife remained at their Le Touquet house, where, during the Phoney
  War, he worked on Joy in the Morning.

• Throughout his time in Tost, he sent postcards to his US literary agent asking for $5 to be sent to various people in Canada, mentioning his name.

• [122] On 21 June 1941, while he was in the middle of playing a game of cricket, Wodehouse received a visit from two members of the Gestapo.

• [70] Donaldson suggests that this is the reason why his lyrics have largely been overlooked in recent years: they fit the music perfectly, but do not stand on their own in
  verse form as Gilbert’s do.

• In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Iain Sproat counts twenty aunts and considers that they played an important part not only in Wodehouse’s early life, but, thinly
  disguised, in his mature novels, as the formidable aunts who dominate the action in the Wooster, Blandings, and other stories.

• [50] In early 1906 the actor-manager Seymour Hicks invited Wodehouse to become resident lyricist at the Aldwych Theatre, to add topical verses to newly imported or long-running
  shows.

• He would take up to two years to build a plot and write a scenario of about thirty thousand words.

• Wodehouse a doctor of letters the University has done the right and popular thing.

• [120][n 22] Wodehouse’s family and friends had not had any news of his location after the fall of France, but an article from an Associated Press reporter who had visited
  Tost in December 1940 led to pressure on the German authorities to release the novelist.

• The two collaborated between 1907 and 1913 on two books, two music hall sketches, and a play, Brother Alfred.

• He stayed there at his own expense; royalties from the German editions of his books had been put into a special frozen bank account at the outset of the war, and Wodehouse
  was permitted to draw upon this money he had earned while staying in Berlin.

• The show was successful, but they thought the song lyrics weak and invited Wodehouse to join them on its successor.

• [32][n 5] Between the publication of The Pothunters 1902 and that of Mike in 1909, Wodehouse wrote eight novels and co-wrote another two.

• They cannot be got into a play and they are at least half the fun of the novels.

• [20][n 3] Wodehouse’s six years at Dulwich were among the happiest of his life: “To me the years between 1894 and 1900 were like heaven.

• [127] The day after Wodehouse recorded his final programme, Ethel joined him in Berlin, having sold most of her jewellery to pay for the journey.

• [107][n 20] Wodehouse was never sure that his books had literary merit as well as popular appeal, and, Donaldson suggests, must have been overwhelmed when the University of
  Oxford conferred an honorary doctorate of letters on him in June 1939.

• [7][n 2] When he was two, the brothers were brought to England, where they were placed under the care of an English nanny in a house adjoining that of Eleanor’s father and
  mother.

• [51] Psmith, Blandings, Wooster and Jeeves: 1908–1915[edit] Psmith, drawn by T. M. R. Whitwell for first edition of Mike (1909) Wodehouse’s early period as a writer came to
  an end in 1908 with the serialisation of The Lost Lambs, published the following year in book form as the second half of the novel Mike.

• He sold many more stories, but none of the American publications offered a permanent relationship and guaranteed income.

• The interview was reprinted in The New York Times, and there was much editorial comment about the state of the film industry.

• [128] A front-page article in The Daily Mirror stated that Wodehouse “lived luxuriously because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country’s heart,
  … [he] was not ready to share her suffering.

• [27] At first he concentrated, with some success, on serious articles about school sports for Public School Magazine.

• Ethel was taken with both the financial and social aspects of Hollywood life, and she negotiated a contract with MGM on her husband’s behalf under which he would be paid $2,000
  a week.

• “[21] In addition to his sporting achievements he was a good singer and enjoyed taking part in school concerts; his literary leanings found an outlet in editing the school
  magazine, The Alleynian.

• [124] Shortly afterwards Wodehouse was, in the words of Phelps, “cleverly trapped” into making five broadcasts to the US via German radio, with the Berlin-based correspondent
  of the Columbia Broadcasting System.

• “[87] Even when the studio found a project for him to work on, the interventions of committees and constant rewriting by numerous contract authors meant that his ideas were
  rarely used.

• Wodehouse had made any real assault on the intelligence of the song-listening public.

• [2] In a study of Wodehouse’s works, Richard Usborne argues that “only a writer who was himself a scholar and had had his face ground into Latin and Greek (especially Thucydides)
  as a boy” could sustain the complex sequences of subordinate clauses sometimes found in Wodehouse’s comic prose.

• Although his captors refused to release him, Wodehouse was provided with a typewriter and, to pass the time, he wrote Money in the Bank.

• His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction.

• [52] The work begins as a conventional school story, but Wodehouse introduces a new and strikingly original character, Psmith,[53] whose creation both Evelyn Waugh and George
  Orwell regarded as a watershed in Wodehouse’s development.

• He commented, “It’s odd how soon one comes to look on every minute as wasted that is given to earning one’s salary.

• [22] For the rest of his life he remained devoted to the school.

• Some critics of Wodehouse have considered his work flippant, but among his fans are former British prime ministers and many of his fellow writers.

• “[96] In 1934 Wodehouse collaborated with Bolton on the book for Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (Porter wrote his own lyrics), but at the last minute their version was almost
  entirely rewritten by others at the instigation of the producer, who disliked the original script.

• He noted in his diary: “In New York gathering experience.

• After his release he made six broadcasts from German radio in Berlin to the US, which had not yet entered the war.

 

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