Wodehouse began to
spend much of this time in America, and since his poor eyesight debarred im
from war service, he was somewhat detached from the War in the UK and life there. He married Ethel- an English widow, who had a
daughter -Leonora. Plum loved his stepdaughter
and was very close to her, and his marriage was happy, with Ethel managing his
life and letting him concentrate on his writing. However he became somewhat reclusive, as time
passed and didn’t take much interest in the world outside which was later to
cause him problems.
He was content to
let Ethel manage the practical details of life for him, and to enjoy a busy
social life, though he had little interest in such things.
He began to write
his stories of Jeeves and Wooster, and about Blandings Castle, where Lord
Emsworth, a dotty amiable country loving peer, lives, trying to avoid being
bullied and managed by his large family of domineering sisters, obsessed with
the well-being of his prize Pig, the Empress of Blandings.
his plots were
intricate and brilliant and funny. As he
said it was a sort of musical comedy with the music left out, all about
misunderstandings, farcical situations, and it all ended happily.
Jeeves is much cleverer than his master Bertie, who
is “mentally negligible” and who has a
fatal knack of accidentally getting engaged to various strong minded
girls. Jeeves rescues him from these and
other situations. He also smooth the
path of true love for many of Berties friends, like Bingo Little and helps
Bertie to keep on good terms with his domineering but affectionate Aunt Dahlia.
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