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In the 1920s and ’30s, a notorious set of siblings held England in thrall. But did one of them really announce her Nazism in the newspaper?
In the 1920s and ’30s, a notorious set of siblings held England in thrall. But did one of them really announce her Nazism in the newspaper?
PG Wodehouse. Ottessa Moshfegh. Rosita Sweetman. Two great Longfordians: Maria Edgeworth and Belinda McKeon. And Jilly Cooper, to get the party started. The best and worst things about where you live?
At home, he educated them during three-hour dinners on topics that ranged from the French Revolution to Bolshevik Russia, PG Wodehouse, the history of the American Indian and, always, the eternal and ...
Richard "Dick" Carlson, an award-winning journalist, political lobbyist and diplomat whose colorful – and often personally tragic – life took him from a Boston orphanage to the highest levels ...
Charles took it in good part, noting in his Canada Day speech in Edmonton, Alberta, that it was Diana’s first visit to the country. “I have a feeling, of course, that if my wife hadn’t married me, she ...
For some reason, Indians have always warmed to PG Wodehouse’s two most famous creations — Bertie Wooster, who is well off but unfamiliar with the concept of work, and Jeeves, his gentlemens’ gentleman ...
When the English writer and humorist P.G. “Plum” Wodehouse died 50 years ago this month, most would be forgiven for believing that his death took place at some grand English country house, not ...
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2024 has been awarded to Ferdia Lennon for his “exquisitely unique and funny debut novel” Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree).
Starting with footage of PG Wodehouse at home in the Hamptons on New York's Long Island, this interview shows the author at his genial and self-deprecating best. Wodehouse cheerfully discusses his ...