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Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures.
The following 10 short stories feature Blandings Castle, its owner Lord Emsworth or members of his family. There are also 11 Blandings novels including an unfinished novel. The short story "Life with Freddie" is not set in Blandings Castle but contains Lord Emsworth's son, Freddie Threepwood. "The Crime Wave at Blandings" was rewritten from an ...
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on 12 April 1935 by Herbert Jenkins , London, and, as Blandings Castle , in the United States on 20 September 1935 by Doubleday Doran , New York. [ 1 ]
Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, 7th Baronet (usually called Sir Gregory Parsloe) [1] is a fictional character from the Blandings Castle short stories and novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. In the stories, Parsloe resides at Matchingham Hall, near Blandings Castle, and is the rival and enemy of Lord Emsworth. [2]
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (shorts), Summer Lightning (novel) Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse , first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins , London , England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Doran , New York . [ 1 ]
Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, [1] and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1900s; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called "Threepwood Cottage", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family ...
The Honourable Frederick Threepwood is a fictional character in the Blandings stories by P. G. Wodehouse.A member of the Drones Club affectionately known as "Freddie", he is the second son of Lord Emsworth, and a somewhat simple-minded youth who brings his father nothing but trouble.
In 1985, the story was adapted for radio as part of the Blandings radio series. The episode was titled "Lord Emsworth Grows a Beard". [10] The story was adapted into the fourth episode of the second series of the Blandings television series, also titled "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best", which aired in March 2014.