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- In the 1920s and 1930s he collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton in an arrangement that "helped transform the American musical" of the time; in the Grove Dictionary of American Music Larry Stempel writes, "By presenting naturalistic stories and characters and attempting to integrate the songs and lyrics into the action of the libretto, these works brought a new level of intimacy, cohesion, and sophistication to American musical comedy."
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May 24, 2024 · P.G. Wodehouse, English-born comic novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and playwright, best known as the creator of Jeeves, the supreme ‘gentleman’s gentleman.’ He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film scripts and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies.
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Wodehouse in 1930. Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE ( / ˈwʊdhaʊs / WOOD-howss; 15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord ...
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- P.G. Wodehouse During The War
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born 15 October 1881, in Guildford, England. His father was a judge in Hong Kong and his family had strong roots in Norfolk often representing the area in Parliament. Wodehouse was sent to boarding school at Dulwich College and he often spent his vacations staying with various aunts around the English countryside. Man...
Initially, his family planned for him a career in banking in the Far East. However, after his first job for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, it soon became evident that repetitive paperwork was the wrong choice for the creative mind of Wodehouse. He left the bank to start a career as a journalist and writer. His early stories were based on public school...
In 1940, at the onset of World War II, he was captured by the Germans in Le Touquet, France. Just prior to the Allied armies evacuation he was offered the one remaining seat on a RAF plane, but did not wish to leave behind his wife and adopted daughter. He was sent to a prison at the Citadel of Huy and then to an internment camp in Upper Silesia. D...
In 1914, Wodehouse married Ethel Rowley, a recent widow. He adopted Ethel’s daughter from her previous marriage. He never had any children of his own. Amongst friends Wodehouse was known affectionately as ‘Plum’ He was known for avoiding the limelight but pursued a modest lifestyle, enjoying golf, swimming and meeting good friends. Citation: Pettin...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, better known as P.G., was living in northern France and working on his latest Jeeves and Wooster novel, Joy in the Morning, when the Nazis came knocking.
Apr 22, 2022 · Wodehouse’s most famous venture into politics was his mocking of a thinly disguised Oswald Mosley through the character of Roderick Spode. In The Code of the Woosters , we learn that Spode is an “amateur dictator” who leads a group called the Saviours of Britain, known as the “Black Shorts” because all the shirt colors had been taken ...
Jan 27, 2020 · Wodehouse is best known for creating sunny fictional worlds into which we can escape, yet he found himself embroiled in a dark real-world controversy for making five radio broadcasts from Berlin, at the behest of the Nazi government, in 1941.
Nov 27, 2020 · PG Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, was the most English novelist imaginable. His comic world was old-fashioned well before he died 45 years ago - crammed with disapproving...
