Ian Cockburn talks to Mora about the first of two collaborations with Herbert Westbrook, Not George Washington (1907), a semi-autobiographical novel about life in Edwardian London as a struggling writer. There will be spoilers.
Free eBook of Not George Washington at Project Gutenberg
Not George Washington public domain audiobook at LibriVox
(NB the book is not public domain in all countries)
Also mentioned in the podcast:
Reference books and resources:
Norman Murphy's A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe's P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Daniel Garrison & Neil Midkiff Who's Who in Wodehouse
Other Wodehouse books and stories
Over Seventy (memoir)
The Small Bachelor
Love Among the Chickens
A Gentleman of Leisure
"Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit" (Very Good, Jeeves)
"Best Seller" (Mulliner Nights)
Other books
George Du Maurier, Trilby
Guy Thorne, When it was Dark (which I read about in Claud Cockburn's Bestseller)
Not mentioned in the podcast is the archetype of "struggling London writer novels", George Gissing's New Grub Street
This might be the painting of Napoleon and his generals Wodehouse meant.
For more about Westbrook check out the podcasts on The Gold Bat and on Love Among the Chickens
For more about Seymour Hicks check out the episode on The Head of Kay's
Mora's podcast (about the fantasy series/world Malazan) is Smiley's
The music for the Boxing jingle is by Shaun Day.
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