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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