Trivia / P. G. Wodehouse

• Defictionalization: Navy Nurse by Rosie M. Banks. Wodehouse gave the author permission to use Miss Banks's name as their nom de plume.
• Disowned Adaptation: The 1936 In Name Only film adaptation of ‘’Thank You, Jeeves'', starring David Niven as Wooster and Arthur Treacher as Jeeves. Wodehouse complained that Treacher spent too much time doing comic mugging, and the script had not one word in common with anything Wodehouse ever wrote.
• Sequel Gap: Long ones, frequently. Possibly the longest is between The Luck of the Bodkins (1935) and its sequel, Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin (1972) — 37 years.
• Technology Marches On: In his first novel, The Pothunters, the protagonists use a jellygraph to produce a short run of their underground school magazine. While a 21st-century reader can work out from context that it's some kind of duplicator, it's very unlikely that they'd ever have encountered one.

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