Madame Eulalie: The Early Works of P. G. Wodehouse

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New!!! 1-Jan-2021: US copyright law finally allows 1925 publications to go into public domain in the USA: seeWhats New menu for many new items.
1-April-2021: Press release and ordering information for John Dawsons new book P. G. Wodehouses Early Years
11-Oct-2021: New annotations to Piccadilly Jim added to Annotations section

Introduction

THIS SITE is dedicated to the early writings of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. The Wodehouse material collected on this site was all copyrighted before 1926 and is available in the public domain in the United States. We are grateful to the Wodehouse Estate for their approval of our efforts in making these works available here. However, in many other countries, particularly the UK and Europe, the copyright of the Wodehouse Literary Estate will extend through the year 2045. Users outside the USA should consider local copyright laws before downloading material from the site.

For information on buying authorized editions of P. G. Wodehouses books, visit the Buy PGW Books page in the navigation bar above.

Two new books on Wodehouse have recently been published by regular contributors to this site. The third edition of Whos Who in Wodehouse by Daniel H. Garrison and Neil Midkiff includes capsule biographies of over four thousand characters created by Plum. John Dawsons P. G. Wodehouses Early Years: His Life and Work 18811908 provides new research and a fresh perspective on Wodehouses childhood and the first years of his professional career, with a full transcription of his journal of early publications. Both these volumes are self-published; ordering information is on each books page on this site at the links in this box.

Sir Pelham (P. G. Wodehouse to his publishers, Plum to his family and his fans) is one of the greatest comic writers of all time. His work has been enjoyed by generations of readers, including successful authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Douglas Adams, and J. K. Rowling. His books about the bungling Bertie Wooster and his omniscient valet Jeeves; the saga of Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, the absent-minded seigneur of Blandings Castle; the Oldest Members stories on Golf; and the tales told by Mr. Mullinerall will be read as long as the English language continues to be spoken and read around the world.

In addition to writing more than 90 books, Plum was also very active in the world of musical comedies. He has over 250 lyrics to his credit. He also contributed many articles and stories to magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Vanity Fair, Punch, and even Playboy.

Today Wodehouse is read all over the world, and there are various local and worldwide bodies that meet frequently to discuss his works. Many of his books and plays have been converted to radio, the theater, movies, and television. His popularity spans generations and his fans range from pre-teens to centenarians.

What is available

The Madame Eulalie site was started by members of the Yahoo! Blandings group, with the noble aims to (a) provide the text for early Wodehouse items which were never published in book form; (b) provide the text and graphics for stories and serialized novels which appeared in magazines, all pre-1926; and (c) provide annotations and other information, such as essays and analysis.

We currently have a very extensive (over 1,240 items) collection of stories, serial episodes, articles, and poems by Plum, which can be accessed via the Items by Publication and Items by Title menus; links are in the navigation bar at the top of every page. In addition to Wodehouses writings and the illustrations originally appearing with them, many of the items (well over 420, and growing!) have explanatory annotations and endnotes; the symbol in the menus for each periodical indicates the presence of these notes. We also have extensive annotations for many of the stories and books published after 1925, therefore still in USA copyright, so not reprinted here; for these, you supply the book, and we provide the footnotes. The menu of annotations is just one of the items you can find at the Notes other resources include lists of verses, lists of stories with recurring characters, extensive bibliographic information, and essays and articles applying to more than a single story.

We are also pleased to present the publications of the P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project, which is working to identify, collect, and study Wodehouses contributions to the Globe newspaper and its By The Way column during his first decade as a journalist.

Other members had been diligently working on annotations, bibliography, etc. on their own sites:

Terry Mordues Celebration of Wodehouse which has a wonderful array of information for the Wodehouse fan. Sadly, Terry passed away suddenly on the 25th of February 2012 and will be greatly missed. With the collaboration of his family, his pages are now hosted on this site.Father Rob Bovendeaards Biblia Wodehousiana, which has the very specific aim of annotating all the Biblical references in Wodehouses books. Fr Rob, who had a very nearly complete set of Biblical annotations on his website, is no longer actively working on his annotations, and his website was moved to Terrys site, then to this site. With the assistance of a few new editors, work has begun on annotating some of the remaining books; see the Whats New page for updates. Contact us if you are interested in contributing.Arthur Robinsons reference pages of addenda and errata to the Wodehouse bibliographies, lists of Wodehouse interviews, references to W. S. Gilbert in Wodehouse, and links to Wodehouse items on Google Books had been hosted at his university site, but technical problems prevented their being updated there, so we are now proud to host his lists and notes.Neil Midkiffs web pages of bibliographic information on Wodehouses novels and short stories, long hosted on his email providers personal web pages, have been relocated to this site.Diego Segu has been compiling a list of Shakespeare quotations and allusions in Wodehouses works, and with the aid of the Madame Eulalie team, has shared the fruits of that research on this site.

Each of their pages can be accessed by means of the buttons in the right sidebar of this page, and these pages as well as other articles, reference lists, and interesting material can be reached from the Notes

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From the By The Way column in the Globe, Saturday, July 6, 1907:

The P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project presents
FOR LOVE OR HONOUR.
Click here to read this serial.

Terry Mordues Wodehouse Pages Fr Rob Bovendeaards Biblia Wodehousiana Arthur Robinsons Reference Pages Neil Midkiffs Wodehouse Pages Diego Segus Wodehouse Shakespeare Reference

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