Ian is joined by Alexander Rennie once more to look at the UK version of the novel The Prince and Betty (1912). The US version has a very different plot closely based on the earlier novel Psmith, Journalist (serialised 1909-1910, book version 1915). We touch lightly on the US version but the main discussion of it will follow in the episode on Psmith, Journalist.
Alexander's own podcast is Forgotten Towns
Other Wodehouse works mentioned
Psmith, Journalist
The Swoop
"The Good Angel" (AKA "The Matrimonial Sweepstakes")
A Gentleman of Leisure
Psmith in the City
The Prizegiving scene in Right Ho, Jeeves
The Steggles stories in The Inimitable Jeeves
The J. Washburn Stoker character in Thank You, Jeeves
Also mentioned
Mills and Boon
Boris Karloff
Ellaline Terriss
Seymour Hicks
The Monégasque Revolution of 1910
Carry On Films
Stephen Leacock, "Gertrude the Governess"
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Yes Minister
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Kigeli V Ndahindurwa of Rwanda
Reference works consulted
Daniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse (Third Expanded Edition)
Neil Midkiff's notes on the different versions at Madame Eulalie's Rare Plums
Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook
Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Wodehousekeeping Podcast links
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