Jill the Reckless with Alexander Rennie

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. You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com.  Help finance the show, Otis Pilkington style, at ko-fi.com/wodehousekeeping. One-off or recurring payments gratefully received. Monitor my feeble attempts at self-promotion at Bluesky or Facebook 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 Thank you for reading the notes! Typing them sometimes feels a little futile, but you make it all worthwhile. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.