Wodehousekeeping

Ian is joined by author Ansley Ashe to discuss The Girl on the Boat (1922), AKA Three Men and A Maid.

Ansley Ashe is making a transition from wrestling/soccer mom, soccer coach, and library trustee to full fledged novelist. She has loved mysteries since she was a little girl, so when it came time to choose a genre, mystery was a natural fit. She loves everything between Sherlock Holmes and Mickey Haller aka the Lincoln Lawyer. She is reading her way through Agatha Christie and Anne Perry and read her first Wodehouse just for this podcast, now she will have to add him to her TBR list. Last year she published a series of holiday themed novelettes based on a young, female detective Charlotte "Charlie" Snow, with several novels still to come in the series. You can keep up with her on her Substack

There will be plot spoilers.

Next month: The Adventures of Sally with Sarah Humphrey.

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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
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
https://www.madameulalie.org
Wikipedia

Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Frozen Assets
Jill the Reckless (The Little Warrior)
Something Fresh
Heavy Weather
"Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest"
"Church Round the Corner"
A Damsel in Distress
"Sir Agravaine"
"The Mixer"
A Gentleman of Leisure
"Strychnine in the Soup"

Also mentioned
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes stories
Agatha Christie
Anne Perry
Michael Connolly, the Mickey Haller/Lincoln Lawyer books
Jeeves and Wooster
Hugh Laurie
Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot
Saturday Night Live
The Girl on the Boat film, archived here
Norman Wisdom
Millicent Martin
Bernard Cribbins
Sheila Hancock
Richard Briers
Athene Seyler
Philip Lock
Wilde
Annie Besant
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Lusitania
Alice "Billie" Dovey
Thomas Otway, The Orphan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Constance Markievicz - first female member of UK parliament
Nancy Astor
Frank Tinney
The Black and White Minstrel Show
Bert Williams
Southwick Priory
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
William Shakespeare, Othello
Scooby Doo
Edgar Allen Poe
Sir Walter Scott, "Young Lochinvar"
Mary Mestmacott, Giant's Bread
Mary Roberts Rheinhart
Dorothy L Sayers
G K Chesterton
Georgette Heyer
Raymond Chandler
"Carolyn Keene", the Nancy Drew series
Amelia Earhart
Marilyn Monroe

Song snippets
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, "(She's Gonna) Respect Me"
Flanders and Swann, "Sea Fever"
The Seven Inches, "Stop Pestering Me" (lyrics/vocals: me)
Tindersticks, "Pinky in the Daylight"

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Ian is joined by extra special honoured guest Elin Woodger Murphy, A legend of the Wodehouse Society (and the Wodehouse Society UK), former editor/"oldest member" of Plum Lines and Wooster Sauce and one of the organisers of this year's Wodehouse Society Convention in Garden City, NY.
The book we are discussing this month is The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922), Wodehouse's first collection of golf stories, AKA Golf Without Tears. Elin also talks of her childhood spent in Port Chester and Long Island where they lived very near the Wodehouses, and of her history in Wodehouse fan circles. We also enthuse over the work of Elin's late husband, Norman Murphy.
There will be plot spoilers and stymies.
Next month: The Girl on the Boat with Ansley Ashe.
Special thanks to Maria Jette.
The Wodehouse Society website, with details of the 2026 convention in Garden City, NY
My band The Seven Inches are playing a show this month! Tickets here
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Reference works consulted
N T Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works alluded to
Carry On Jeeves
The Man Upstairs
The Man With Two Left Feet
Leave it to Psmith
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend"
The Heart of a Goof
Love Among the Chickens
"Archibald's Benefit"
"Parted Ways"
"the Eighteenth Hole"
"The Man Who Disliked Cats"
"By Advice of Counsel"
Jill the Reckless
"Bongo in the Congo" (lyric)
The Mating Season
"Tom, Dick and Harry"
"The Idle King"
William Tell Told Again
"Sir Agravaine"
Also mentioned
Maria Jette
Wodehouse Society (US)
Marilyn MacGregor
Ed Ratcliffe
Plum Lines
Bill Blood
Norman Murphy
The Wodehouse Society (UK)
Wooster Sauce
Edward Cazalet
The Wodehouse Collection at Vanderbilt University
The Shaw Festival Theatre Niagara
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Norman Murphy: - A Guide to P G Wodehouse's New York City and Long Island
- A Wodehouse Handbook
- In Search of Blandings
- A Wodehouse Miscellany
Weston Park
Sudeley Castle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Bobby Jones
Abe Mitchell
Harry Vardon
Terry Mordue
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Rudyard Kipling
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Marcus Aurelius
E. M. Hull, The Sheik
Hal Cazalet
Song snippets
Pet shop boys, "You know where you went wrong"
Goffin and King, "He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)
Cole Porter, "Find Me A Primitive Man"
Gallagher and Shean, "Mr Gallagher and Mr Shean"

There is more in this pastime than the casual observer would suppose.
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Ian is rejoined by composer, writer, musician, voice artist, and parafictionalist Peter Falconer to look at Indiscretions of Archie (1921), a series of short stories adapted into the form of a novel. Topics arising include the First World War, Prohibition, 'the Irish question' and Labour Relations.
There will be plot spoilers.
Next month: The Clicking of Cuthbert, or Golf Without Tears.
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Reference works consulted
Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia
Other Wodehouse works alluded to
The Swoop
A Gentleman of Leisure
Piccadilly Jim
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Code of the Woosters
The Prince and Betty
"Extricating Young Gussie"
"Leave it to Jeeves" AKA "The Artistic Career of Corky"
A Damsel in Distress
"Jeeves and the Chump Cyril"
Bring on the Girls (with Guy Bolton)
"We're Crooks" (song)
Uneasy Money
"Napoleon" (song)
"In Alcala"
"Doing Clarence a Bit of Good"
"Jeeves Makes an Omelette"
Also mentioned
Baldwin King-Hall
Herbert Westbrook
Ella King-Hall
Biblia Wodehousiana
T. D. Skidmore (US illustrator)
Fred Astaire
A. Wallis Mills (UK illustrator)
Ian Hay
C H Bovill
James Bond
"Fatty" Arbuckle
Abe Erlanger
Abgail's Party
Song snippets
The Archies, "Sugar Sugar"
Sananda Maitreya, "If You Let Me Stay"
The Beach Boys, "It's Trying to Say"
The Divine Comedy, "Don't Mention the War"
Shonen Knife, "Fruits and Vegetables"
Little Richard, "Lucille"
Kenny Carter, "Showdown"
Sterling Trio "It's A Long Way Back To Mother's Knee"
Cole Porter, "You're the Top"
Noel Coward, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, "Annie's Cousin Fannie"
Flanders and Swann, "Strike"
Magnetic Fields, "Goin' Back to the Country"
Cocteau Twins, "Tishbite"
Georges Brassens, "La chanson pour l'Auvergnat"
Sting, "An Englishman in New York"
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Ian is joined for a fifth time by Alexander Rennie of the now concluded Forgotten Towns podcast and blog. They discuss Jill the Reckless, AKA The Little Warrior, from 1920. A standalone Anglo-American novel centred around the New York stage, it includes the first mention of the Drones Club. Ian and Alex both consider this one of the stronger Wodehouse books so far covered in the podcast.
There will be plot spoilers.

Next month: Indiscretions of Archie.

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Reference works consulted
Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life
Sophie Ratcliffe, ed: P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition
Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Frances Donaldson, ed: Yours, Plum
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia

Other Wodehouse works alluded to
Something Fresh
The Prince and Betty
Uneasy Money
The Adventures of Sally
Leave it to Psmith
Bill the Conqueror
Big Money
"The Man Upstairs"
Indiscretions of Archie
The Inimitable Jeeves
A Damsel in Distress
"The Mixer"
The Luck of the Bodkins
The Rose of China
"Napoleon" in Have A Heart
The Small Bachelor
"Bill" in Show Boat
Anything Goes
Psmith Journalist
Company For Henry

Also mentioned
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
John Grant
Willy Mason
Walt Mason
Flanders and Swann, "The Safety Curtain", "Strike" and "In the D'Oyly Cart"
Richard D'Oyly Carte
Book of Daniel, The Bible
Beastie Boys, "Shadrach"
David Devant and His Spirit Wife, "Pimlico"
The Bowes-Lyons family
Dickens, David Copperfield and Bleak House
Beachcomber (J.B. Morton), the Captain Foulenough stories
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Ian Sproat
Julian Mitchell
The Ziegfeld Follies
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger
Napoleon Bonaparte
Cockburn's Port
Rennie Heartburn and Indigestion Relief
Diet Coke
Etta James, "I Just Want to Make Love To You"
Automat
Omar Khayaam
Alexander Woollcott
William J Halley, "Pullman Porters on Parade"
Robert S. Bader, Four of the Three Musketeers
Apocrypals podcast
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals
The Orange Tree, Richmond
Patricia Hodge

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Ian is joined again by his brother Josh to talk about P. G. Wodehouse's A Damsel in Distress, the 1919 standalone novel that has a lot of similiarites to a Blandings Novel. It also features the return of Keggs (The Man Upstairs, The Coming of Bill) and the themes of medieval-style chivalry, class snobbery and musical theatre. We also talk about the 1937 film version, starring Fred Astaire, featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, and a screenplay co-written by Wodehouse.

There will be spoilers.

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Reference works consulted
Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life
Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End
Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse
Lee Davis, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern
Barry Day, The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums website
Wikipedia and IMDb

Other works by Wodehouse mentioned:
A Gentleman of Leisure
Something Fresh
A Damsel in Distress (play and film adaptations)
The Girl Behind the Gun (show)
"The Good Angel"
"Love Me, Love My Dog"
Something Fishy
Summer Lightning
Bachelors Anonymous
"Sir Agravaine"
The Prince and Betty
"Avenged!"
"Extricating Young Gussie"
Piccadilly Jim
Uneasy Money
Spring Fever
The Code of the Woosters
Jill the Reckless
Miss 1917 (show)
Oh Kay (show)
Rosalie (show)

Also mentioned:
Ian Hay
Basil Foster
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman, 1066 and All That
George Gershwin
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Bollywood adaptation)
Maud and Ivan Caryll
Euros Childs, "Thrips"
Jerome Kern
Taskmaster
Reece Shearsmith
Mary Deane
The Regal Theatre
Alice Dovey
Anton Chekhov
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
Enid Blyton
Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends
Lewis Carroll, "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Machiavelli
David and Jonathan (Book of Samuel)
Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
Riot Women
Guy Bolton
Ira Gershwin
Pandro S Berman
George Stevens
Allan Scott
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Joan Fontaine
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Reginald Gardiner
Ray Noble
It's A Wonderful Life
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