Mike And Psmith with Matthew Bellwood

Wodehousekeeping

Ian is joined by storyteller Matthew Bellwood to discuss Mike and Psmith, the second half of the double novel Mike, published in 1909. This is the debut of the beloved character Psmith, and the final public school novel by Wodehouse published in his lifetime.

There will be spoilers. May contain knuts.

Mike and Psmith at Project Gutenberg

The Lost Lambs (magazine version) at Madame Eulalie

Other Wodehouse works referenced:

Mike at Wrykyn

Psmith in the City

Psmith, Journalist

Leave it to Psmith

Something New

Joy in the Morning (Preface)

The Globe By The Way Book

"The Reformation of Study Sixteen"

"The Stone and the Weed"

"Society Gossip"

Also referenced:

Richard Usborne, Wodehouse At Work To The End

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Doris Buckler, "Thanks to Psmith"

Terry Pratchett

Douglas Adams

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rupert D'Oyly-Carte (the inspiration for Psmith)

Sir Kreemy Knut (Sharp's Toffee mascot)

E C Segar, Thimble Theater

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes stories

F Anstey, Babboo Jabberjee

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Rudyard Kipling, Stalky and Co

E W Hornung, the Raffles stories

C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, the Captain Kettle stories

Arthur Ransome

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