Jill the Reckless with Alexander Rennie

Ian is joined for a fifth time by Alexander Rennie of the now concluded Forgotten Towns podcast and blog. They discuss Jill the Reckless, AKA The Little Warrior, from 1920. A standalone Anglo-American novel centred around the New York stage, it includes the first mention of the Drones Club. Ian and Alex both consider this one of the stronger Wodehouse books so far covered in the podcast.

There will be plot spoilers.

Next month: Indiscretions of Archie.

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Reference works consulted

Robert McCrum: Wodehouse: A Life

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

Norman Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook

Daniel Garrison and Neil Midkiff: Who's Who in Wodehouse, third edition

Lee Davis: Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern