PLATES
Section One
1 Eleanor and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1882)
2 The three eldest Wodehouse boys (1887)
3 Ernest Wodehouse in Hong Kong, c. 1885
6 The HongKong and Shanghai Bank rugby football team, c. 1901
7 Illustration from The New Fold, published in The Captain (1908)
8 Ernestine Bowes-Lyon, c. 1902
9 Herbert Wotton Westbrook, c. 1914
11 The Luck Stone in Chums magazine (1908)
12 George Grossmith Jr in The Girls of Gottenberg (1907)
13 Lillian Barnett at Emsworth, c. 1912
14 Leslie Havergal Bradshaw (1912)
16 Passenger list for the Sicilian liner (1912)
18 The Saturday Evening Post, featuring Wodehouse’s serial Something New (1915)
20 The chorus line of Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918)
Section Two
22 Wodehouse with Ethel and Leonora at Le Touquet (1924)
23 Wodehouse at Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, c. 1929
25 Maureen O’Sullivan with Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
26 Illustration from Thank You, Jeeves, in Cosmopolitan (1934)
27 The wedding of Peter and Leonora Cazalet (1932)
28 Wodehouse and Ethel at Leonora’s wedding
29 Magazine feature about the Wodehouses’ house in Le Touquet (1938)
30 Wodehouse in internment (1940)
31 The Wodehouses’ friend, the double-agent Johann Jebsen, c. 1942
32 Anga von Bodenhausen and Raven von Barnikow
33 Feature interview with Wodehouse in Illustrated magazine (1946)
35 Wodehouse’s The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood (1964)
36 Wodehouse with a model maker from Madame Tussaud’s (1974)
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT
Childhood poem by Wodehouse, c. 1896
Letter from Wodehouse to Eric Beardsworth George (1899)
Sketch by Eric Beardsworth George, c. 1899
Sketch by Eric Beardsworth George, c. 1899
Sheet music for Wodehouse’s lyric for the musical, Sergeant Brue (1904)
‘Answers to Correspondents’, in Tit-Bits, 15 August 1908
Love Among the Chickens, serialised in the Circle magazine (1908)
Letter from Wodehouse to J. B. Pinker, 11 May 1909
Sheet music for ‘Bill’, from Wodehouse and Kern’s Oh, Lady! Lady!! (1918)
‘The Daily Dozen’, Collier’s Magazine (1920)
Letter from Wodehouse to William Townend, 5 May 1927
Postcard from Wodehouse to Paul Reynolds, 21 October 1940
Postcard from Wodehouse to Paul Reynolds, 1 November 1940
The internees’ camp newspaper, The Tost Times (June 1941)
The editor and publisher are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce photographs: plates 2, 3, 17, 24, 27, 28, 30, 36, and p. 70, p. 299, p. 300, Wodehouse Estate; plate 6, courtesy of HSBC holdings plc; plates 7, 11, 12, 18, 20, 26, 34 and pages 33, 55, 69, 95, 130, 300, courtesy of Tony Ring; plate 8, image courtesy of Mellors and Kirk Fine Art Auctioneers; plate 9, courtesy of N. T. P. Murphy; plate 10, courtesy of Richard Perceval-Maxwell; plate 13, by kind permission of Emsworth Maritime and Historical Trust (Emsworth Museum); plate 14, courtesy of Timothy Bradshaw; plate 15, courtesy of Ann Garland and Linda Eaton; plate 16, Source: Library and Archives Canada/Department of Employment and Immigration fonds/RG 76, Microfilm T-4790; plate 21, © National Portrait Gallery, London; plate 22, courtesy of Tatler; plate 23, © Sasha/Hulton Archives/Getty Images; plate 25, © Popperfoto/Getty Images; plate 31, National Archives; plate 32, courtesy of Reinhild von Bodenhausen; plate 33, © The Advertising Archive; page 42, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York; pages 45, 48 and 186, with kind permission of the Governors of Dulwich College; page 67, The Bodleian Library, Oxford; page 70, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; pages 293 and 299, Columbia University Library. Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. If notified, the publisher will be pleased to rectify any errors or omissions at the earliest opportunity.