Jeevesville, USA.(Devine)(P.G. Wodehouse's character Jeeves in his Blanding Castle novels)(Critical essay)

UNABLE ALWAYS TO SUPPRESS the smartarse which lurks within me, I experienced a sense triumph recently when I became convinced at I had discovered the true source of P.G. Wodehouse's inspiration.

Is this a matter of consequence to the intellectual life of the twenty-first century? To reassure myself before making the results of my research public, I asked my most sophisticated early-thirties Australian friend if she and her contemporaries read Wodehouse. She e-mailed:

 
   I always keep a few of his books on hand 
   in ease I feel blue. I bought a stack of 
   Blandings Castle novels in Connaught 
   Circus, Delhi, and read them to relieve my misery 
   while ...