Thank You, Jeeves (Bertie Wooster & Jeeves)

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Wodehouse, P. G. (1974) [1972]. "Chapter 11". Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (Reprinteded.). London: Penguin Books. p.171. ISBN 9780140038354.

One detail of Bertie's Malvern House life that comes into several stories is his winning of the prize for scripture knowledge. Bertie speaks with pride of this achievement on several occasions, but in Right Ho, Jeeves, his friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, while intoxicated, publicly accuses Bertie of having won the award by cheating. Bertie stoutly denies this charge, however, and on the same occasion, Gussie makes other completely groundless accusations against other characters. Despite his pride over his accomplishment, Bertie does not remember precisely what the prize was, simply stating that it was "a handsomely bound copy of a devotional work whose name has escaped me". [13] Jeeves and Bertie first appeared in " Extricating Young Gussie", a short story published in the US in September 1915, though it was not seen in the UK until 1916. In the story, Jeeves's character is minor and not fully developed, and Bertie's surname appears to be Mannering-Phipps. The first fully recognisable Jeeves and Wooster story was "Leave It to Jeeves", published in early 1916. As the series progressed, Jeeves assumed the role of Bertie Wooster's co-protagonist. Most of the Jeeves stories were originally published as magazine pieces before being collected into books, although 11 of the short stories were reworked and divided into 18 chapters to make an episodic semi-novel called The Inimitable Jeeves. Other collections, most notably The World of Jeeves, restore these to their original form of 11 distinct stories. Garcia-Navarro, Lulu (2 December 2018). "Jeeves And Wooster, But Make It A Modern Spy Novel". National Public Radio . Retrieved 27 January 2021. Rupert Steggles is a fictional character in three linked Jeeves short stories in The Inimitable Jeeves. The only son of one of the biggest bookies in London, Steggles is an amateur bookmaker of dubious reputation. He is variously described as ferret-faced and rat-faced, and uses underhanded tactics to ensure that he profits from bookmaking. In " The Great Sermon Handicap", Steggles takes bets on the sermon duration of local clergymen near Twing Hall on a given Sunday. In " The Purity of the Turf", he organizes betting on the events at the Twing village school treat held on the grounds of Twing Hall. In " The Metropolitan Touch", Steggles takes bets on who will win the heart of Mary Burgess. [64] J. Washburn Stoker [ edit ]

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The Aunt and the Sluggard", slightly rewritten for Carry On, Jeeves, originally published 1916-04-22 in the Saturday Evening Post. In 2018, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves was adapted as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4. Martin Jarvis portrayed Jeeves and James Callis portrayed Bertie Wooster. [150] Croft Original 'One Instinctively Knows When Something Is Right' ". HAT Ads. History of Advertising Trust . Retrieved 13 February 2013. Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1954]. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Reprinteded.). London: Arrow Books. ISBN 978-1-78033-824-8.

Thank You, P.G.Wodehouse (1981)". BFI. British Film Institute. 2018. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018 . Retrieved 20 March 2018. In illustrations, Bertie Wooster has frequently been depicted wearing a monocle. However, this is probably merely a stereotypical depiction of an upper-class gentleman, as Bertie does not seem to wear a monocle in the original stories. The only evidence of Bertie wearing a monocle occurs in " The Spot of Art", when Bertie sees a portrait of himself, wearing a monocle, in a poster advertising soup. Bertie is revolted by the image, which gives him a look of "bestial greed". The monocle seems to exaggerate this expression, and Bertie makes fun of how large the monocle looks, calling it "about six inches in circumference". [28] Bertie is never described as wearing a monocle elsewhere. It is unlikely that Bertie would wear a monocle that would not be mentioned, since the glasses of other characters, particularly Bertie's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle, are well-described, and another prominent Wodehouse character, Psmith, has a distinctive monocle that is mentioned many times. [29] Personality [ edit ] Leave It to Jeeves", rewritten and retitled "The Artistic Career of Corky" in Carry On, Jeeves, originally published 1916-02-05 in the Saturday Evening Post. Dirda, Michael (10 November 2011). "Holmes and away". New Statesman America . Retrieved 23 March 2020. Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1925]. Carry On, Jeeves (Reprinteded.). London: Arrow Books. ISBN 978-0099513698.Seinfeld, Jerry (20 May 1993). "Did you ever notice a lot of butlers are named Jeeves?". TV Fanatic . Retrieved 23 January 2021. Bertie Wooster's early education took place at the semi-fictional Malvern House Preparatory School, headed by Rev. Aubrey Upjohn, whom he meets again in Jeeves in the Offing. (Wodehouse himself attended a school by that name, in Kearsney, Kent, but the Malvern House that appears in the stories is in the fictional town of Bramley-on-Sea.) At Malvern House, Bertie's friends called him "Daredevil Bertie", though Upjohn and others called him "Bungling Wooster". [11] [12] Henry Wooster is a fictional character mentioned in the Jeeves semi-novel The Inimitable Jeeves, being Bertie Wooster's Uncle Henry, and the brother of Bertie's late father. Though Bertie thought he was extremely decent, Uncle Henry did strange things like keep eleven pet rabbits in his bedroom. He ended up in some sort of home, though his sister, Bertie's Aunt Agatha, claims he was merely eccentric. [81] He died sometime before the stories take place, leaving behind a wife, Emily Wooster, and his twin sons, Claude and Eustace Wooster.