The Coming of Bill with Gwen Sheldon

Gwen Sheldon has stayed on the line to help me look at The Coming of Bill (1919, but really 1914), Also known as Their Mutual Child or The White Hope, it's a rare serious novel (though featuring some choice quips) with a plot supplied for Wodehouse by a helpful magazine editor called Bob Davis.

There will be spoilers.

Content note: discussion of eugenics, nazis, racism, death, and general bad times. (Surely some mistake? -Ed)

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Reference works consulted

Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work to the End

Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff, Who's Who in Wodehouse