Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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It’s a curious thing how many of my pals seem to have aunts and uncles who are their main source of supply. exclaims Bertie candidly, while I am forced to admit that the appeal of the stories is escapist and frivolous in nature more often than not, with few, if any, moments of existential anxiety. I perceived clearly that this cove was one of the world’s workers, the sort no home should be without. Regarding source 2, we are forced to say that since Bertie needs to explain why Anstruther was at Dahlia’s, he refers to Anstruther’s connection to Dahlia, leaving himself out of the picture, so as not to confuse things. The book was published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes; it is a collection of short stories featuring either Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, or Reggie Pepper. Although the book was not published in the United States, all the stories had appeared there, mostly in The Saturday Evening Post or Collier's Weekly, and in the Strand in the UK, prior to the publication of the UK book. [ citation needed] If Aunt Dahlia is Bertie’s father’s sister, her “late father” is also Bertie’s grandfather! Would he not refer to Anstruther as a friend of his own grandfather? Still, this is not conclusive.

Clustering Round Young Bingo" — Bingo Little's wife wants a new housemaid, Aunt Dahlia wants a new cook, and Bingo Little wants his wife's article suppressed. Bertie tries to sort everything out with help from Jeeves. This figurative usage of “edge”—parallel to Bertie’s more frequent use of “limit” for the maximum provocation that one can stand—is cited in the OED. (The only earlier citation in this sense is from Wodehouse’s occasional collaborator Ian Hay, in 1911.) All is well until the final paragraph; there’s no reason why the young Bertie could not have been “sorely oppressed” by a courtesy uncle, so I disagree with the conclusion about George and Tom. The last “Finally” sentence is correct, of course. Note that George Travers in “Clustering Round Young Bingo” calls his own brother “Tom” and George Wooster/Lord Yaxley in “Indian Summer of an Uncle” calls his own sister “Agatha” without other specification. [NM]

P.G. Wodehouse

I take that “by marriage” settles the whole issue in a most satisfactory manner. In fact, we see now that Bertie was actually quite young — a stripling — when Tom and Dahlia married. The best part of Wodehouse’s writing is the slang that comes out of Wooster’s mouth. I haven’t the faintest clue what he’s saying half the time, but it’s all amazeballs. All of it.

Racecourse near the Thames in Surrey, also the scene of duels and prizefights in the 18th and 19th centuries, and motorcycle races in the early years of the 20th. Now a housing development. The former grandstand was moved to Mansfield Town’s football ground in the 1960s. The song on which this is apparently based was first published in 1893, to a tune by Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher, the lyrics written by her sister, Patty Smith Hill, originally being ‘Good morning dear teacher, good morning to you’. This version was used in schools throughout America. Wodehouse has modified the form slightly, presumably to avoid any accusation of plagiarism. And, after all,’ I said, ‘there’s lots to be argued in favour of having a child about the place, if you know what I mean. Kind of cosy and domestic, what?’ Jeeves Takes Charge has the merit of describing the very first encounter between master and servant, courtesy of the famous remedy for alcohol induced migraines that makes Jeeves such a welcome sight in the morning.Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. By analogy to nautical terminology, the King James Bible uses the word “watches” to represent what for the psalmists were simply measures of time – they considered the night as subdivided into four parts. This reference is so vague it’s probably impossible to pin down an exact source. Bertie seems to be talking about the concept of Nemesis, which is one of the leading elements of Greek tragedy. The original SEP appearance of the story used the spelling “Shakspere.”