Ian looks at the 1997 posthumous collection of Wodehouse short school stories, Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere, featuring stories that first appeared in magazines from 1901-1911. No plot spoilers for once, except one that comes with an advance warning.
Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums links:
List of Doyle/Holmes references in Wodehouse's early works
Index to school stories viewable at Madame Eulalie
Guide to early series characters, and an attempted explanation of which Jackson is which
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
All of the school novels
Tales of St Austin's
Psmith in the City
The Prince and Betty
The Luck of the Bodkins
Not George Washington
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
"Treating of Cribs"
"The Fifteenth Man"
"From a Detective's Notebook" (The World of Mr Mulliner)
"The Great Sermon Handicap"
The Joan Romney stories
Also mentioned
Daniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)
Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard, Millennium Wodehouse Concordance
Henry Bohn's Classic Library (used as "cribs" by Edwardian schoolboys)
Barry Pain
The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Otto Penzler (ed.) Sherlock
Peter Cannon, "The Adventure of the Noble Husband"
Without A Clue
Charles Hamilton, the Greyfriars Stories
F C Burnand, "Happy Thoughts"
Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion"
Lewis Carroll, "Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter Writing"
Punch
Wodehousekeeping Podcast links
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