What do Laura Ingalls Wilder and P. G. Wodehouse have in common?
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder ( ; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the "Little House on the Prairie" series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
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P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became familiar to the public over the years. They include the jolly gentleman of leisure Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves; the immaculate and loquacious Psmith; Lord Emsworth and the Blandings Castle set; the Oldest Member, with stories about golf; and Mr Mulliner, with tall tales on subjects ranging from bibulous bishops to megalomaniac movie moguls.
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Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( ; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll ( ), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass", which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
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Frederick Wodehouse Major Sir Edwin Frederick Wodehouse (20 February 1851 – 1 April 1934), known as Sir Frederick Wodehouse, was a senior British police officer, serving as Assistant Commissioner of both the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police.
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Lord Emsworth and Others Lord Emsworth and Others is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 19 March 1937 by Herbert Jenkins, London; it was not published in the United States. The Crime Wave at Blandings, which was published on 25 June 1937 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, is a very different collection, sharing only three of its seven titles with the UK book. Penguin Books published a UK edition of "The Crime Wave at Blandings" in 1966. The stories in both books had all previously appeared in both British and American magazines.
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Percy Jeeves Percy Jeeves (5 March 1888 – 22 July 1916) was a first-class cricketer from England, playing 50 matches for Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1912 to 1914. He joined the British Army in the First World War and was killed in action in 1916. P. G. Wodehouse named his character Jeeves after him.
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The Man with Two Left Feet The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), first published in the UK on 8 March 1917 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the US on 1 February 1933 by A.L. Burt and Co., New York. All the stories had previously appeared in periodicals, usually "The Strand Magazine" in the United Kingdom and "The Red Book Magazine" or "The Saturday Evening Post" in the United States.
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A Gentleman of Leisure A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, "The Gem Collector", in the December 1909 issue of "Ainslee's Magazine".
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Laura Henderson Laura Henderson (6 December 1863 – 29 November 1944) born Laura Forster, rose to prominence in the 1930s when, as a wealthy and eccentric widow, she founded the Windmill Theatre in London's Great Windmill Street, in partnership with Vivian van Damm. With Henderson as owner and van Damm as manager, they turned the theatre into a British institution, famed for its pioneering tableaux vivants of motionless female nudity, and for having "never closed" during the Blitz.
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The Great Sermon Handicap "The Great Sermon Handicap" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the June 1922 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication was in "The Inimitable Jeeves" in 1923. Its plot continues into "The Purity of the Turf" but the two may be read as independent stories.
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Mr Mulliner Speaking Mr Mulliner Speaking is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United Kingdom on April 30, 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, and in the United States on February 21, 1930 by Doubleday, Doran.
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Thomas Wodehouse Sir Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Baronet (c. 1585 – 18 March 1658), was an English baronet and Member of Parliament.
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A. E. Wilder-Smith Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith, FRSC (22 December 1915 – 14 September 1995), more commonly known as A. E. Wilder-Smith, was a British organic chemist, and young Earth creationist.
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Crowned Heads Crowned Heads is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States in "The Argosy" in June 1914 and then in the United Kingdom in "Pearson's Magazine" in April 1915. It was also included in the collection "The Man with Two Left Feet" published in the UK in 1917.
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Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 1 October 1997 by Porpoise Books, London with illustrations by T. M. R. Whitwell. It contains previously uncollected work, most of the stories having first appeared in the schoolboy's magazines such as "The Captain" and "Public School Magazine". It was reprinted by Everyman in 2014.
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Gussie Fink-Nottle Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle ('Spink-Bottle' to Bertie's Aunt Dahlia) is a fictional character in the "Jeeves" novels of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a lifelong friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and a possible member of the Drones Club. Described as "a teetotal bachelor with a face like a fish", he wears horn-rimmed spectacles and is a noted newt fancier.
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The Luck of the Bodkins The Luck of the Bodkins is a novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 11 October 1935 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on January 3, 1936 by Little, Brown and Company, Boston. The two editions are significantly different, though the plot remains the same. The novel was serialised in "Passing Show" magazine (UK) from 21 September to 23 November 1935, and this version was published as the UK edition. For its US magazine appearance, in the "Red Book", between August 1935 and January 1936, Wodehouse re-wrote the story, reducing its length, and this became the US book edition.
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Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G.K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager.
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Ukridge (short story collection) Ukridge is a collection of short stories by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on June 3, 1924 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on July 30, 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, under the title "He Rather Enjoyed It".
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Laura a la ciutat dels sants Laura a la ciutat dels sants is a 1931 novel written by the Catalan writer Miquel Llor. The work is rooted in realism and modernisme, but it also has features of the 1930s, more influenced by Freud and other modern authors. Set in Vic, it follows the initial journey of Laura and her development as a person. The negative image of rural and catholic caused a controversy that made Llor write the second part, "El somriure dels sants" (1947), which clarified this pessimistic portrait.
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Jeeves in the Offing Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 April 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title "How Right You Are, Jeeves", and in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1960 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
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Little House on the Prairie (miniseries) Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie is a 2005 family western television miniseries directed by David L. Cunningham. It is a six-part adaptation of children's novels "Little House in the Big Woods" (1932) and "Little House on the Prairie" (1935) by Laura Ingalls Wilder. The series was broadcast on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series.