Leave it to Wodehouse!

P.G. Wodehouse in Paris, 1945

Like so many things you learn as a child, the writers you read as you grow up will affect you for life. I admit that’s just my opinion, I don’t have scientific proof, but it’s definitely been true for me.

I firmly believe that reading P.G.Wodehouse (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse) from a young age changed the way I thought, the things I found funny, how I believed a good story should be written, what made a good character and how an enjoyable story should end.

Despite Wodehouse being born in 1881, I still found his work spoke to me, a little girl on a English council estate. It was the humour, the brilliant characters and the pricking of pompous old British traditions within the class structure and the inherited privilege of Lords and Ladies in their country mansions. Quite political when you think of it like that.

When Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry (pictured above) brilliantly depicted Jeeves and Wooster on BBC television in the 1990’s even more people discovered the humour and charm of Wodehouse. The…