Thank You, Jeeves (Bertie Wooster & Jeeves)

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The setting is generally an idealised version of the world, with international conflicts being downplayed or ignored. Illness and injuries cause negligible harm, similar to downplayed injuries in stage comedy. [125] Comic style [ edit ]

The Aunt and the Sluggard", slightly rewritten for Carry On, Jeeves, originally published 1916-04-22 in the Saturday Evening Post. Wodehouse, P. G. (1974) [1972]. "Chapter 11". Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (Reprinteded.). London: Penguin Books. p.171. ISBN 9780140038354. While Mrs. Scholfield does not appear in person in the original Jeeves canon, she was portrayed by actress Barbara French in an episode of The World of Wooster based on "Bertie Changes His Mind". [53] Seppings [ edit ] A Letter of Introduction" with "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant" (together " Jeeves and the Chump Cyril", originally published 1918-04-03 in the Saturday Evening Post.)Ring, Tony; Jaggard, Geoffrey (1999). Wodehouse in Woostershire. Chippenham: Porpoise Books. ISBN 1-870-304-19-5. Kuzmenko, Michel (The Russian Wodehouse Society) (22 March 2007). "Wodehouse books". Bibliography . Retrieved 15 August 2007. Usborne, Richard (2003). Plum Sauce: A P. G. Wodehouse Companion. New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 1-58567-441-9. Wodehouse (2008) [1963], Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 4, p. 33. Bertie says regarding Jeeves, "He and the young master may have had differences about Alpine hats with pink feathers in them, but when he sees the y.m. on the receiving end of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, he sinks his dudgeon and comes through with the feudal spirit at its best. So now, instead of being cold and distant and aloof, as a lesser man would have been, he showed the utmost agitation and concern. That is to say, he allowed one eyebrow to rise perhaps an eighth of an inch, which is as far as he ever goes in the way of expressing emotion."

Gwladys Pendlebury is a fictional character appearing in the Jeeves short story, " The Spot of Art" (collected in Very Good, Jeeves). A portrait painter, she meets Bertie Wooster at a party in Chelsea. Though Bertie is initially in love with her, she ultimately gets engaged to Lucius Pim, whom she injured with her car. Her portrait of Bertie is used in soup advertisements. [40] Lucius Pim [ edit ] In 1988, David Suchet portrayed Jeeves and Simon Cadell played Bertie Wooster in the BBC Saturday Night Theatre radio adaptation of the novel Right Ho, Jeeves. [143]Ring for Jeeves (1953) – Only Jeeves novel without Bertie Wooster (US title: The Return of Jeeves), adapting the play Come On, Jeeves The Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy believes George Grossmith Jr. to have been the inspiration for the character of Bertie Wooster. [2] Others have asserted John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley was the inspiration. [3] P. G. Wodehouse was a distant cousin of John Wodehouse. He was also the godfather to the 3rd Earl's son, John Wodehouse, 4th Earl of Kimberley. [4] Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1934]. Thank You, Jeeves (Reprinteded.). Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0-09-951373-5. In 1919, two silent short comedy films, "Making Good with Mother" and "Cutting Out Venus", were released in the US. These shorts were inspired by the Reggie Pepper stories and directed by Lawrence C. Windom. Reggie Pepper, a prototype for Bertie Wooster, was given a manservant named "Jeeves" who was a reformed burglar. The shorts featured Lawrence Grossmith as Reggie Pepper and Charles Coleman as Jeeves. [137]

Episode of the Dog McIntosh" (alternate title: Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh, US title: The Borrowed Dog), originally published 1929.In post-WWII Britain, Jeeves temporarily becomes valet to Lord Rowcester whilst Bertie Wooster is away at a school to teach the wealthy classes how to survive in the wake of social revolution. Lord Rowcester, engaged to be married to Jill Wyvern, wishes to find means of earning money to repair his home and thus sell it off to live a happy married life. At the suggestion of Jeeves, Bill sets up as a bookmaker at horse races under the title of Honest Patch Perkins. [50] Mrs Scholfield [ edit ] Richard P. "Bingo" Little is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories. A member of the Drones Club and a close friend of Bertie Wooster, Bingo often falls in love in the early stories. Bingo also appears in Drones Club stories outside the Jeeves canon. Bommer, Lawrence (26 April 2001). "Jeeves and the Mating Season". Chicago Reader . Retrieved 30 August 2019. Bertie frequently describes Jeeves as having a "feudal spirit". Jeeves enjoys helping Bertie and his friends, [41] and solves Bertie's personal problems despite not being obliged to do so. Jeeves interrupts his vacation twice to come to Bertie's aid (in " The Love That Purifies" and Jeeves in the Offing). He regularly rescues Bertie, usually from an unwanted marriage but also from other threats, such as when he saves Bertie from a hostile swan or when he pulls Bertie out of the way of a taxi. [42] Jeeves is evidently offended when a revolutionary tells him that servants are outdated in " Comrade Bingo". [43]