Happy 130th birthday! Raise a toast to Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster with a tour of his London watering holes
Happy 130th birthday! Raise a toast to P. G. Wodehouse's hilarious tof Bertie Wooster on his birthday with a tour of his London watering holes.Bertie Wooster, the darkest young tof in literary history, was born in 1892. place where Wooster met his valet, Jeeves
The darkest young tof in literary history - the employer of the shimmering valet (never butler) , Jeeves - was born in 1892.
Its creator, P. G. Wodehouse, never reveals his date of birth. But he is 24 in Jeeves Takes Charge, published in November 1916. So Bertie was born 130 years ago.
To celebrate this milestone, I went on a 'browse and sluice' (eat and drink) tour of Bertie Wooster's Mayfair - the fanciest part of London, as it was in the days of Wodehouse. Georgian and Victorian homes and shops are much the same today.
And Jeeves and Wooster waterholes are still open to visitors. business.
I started outside Bertie's apartment on the third floor of 15 Berkeley Street. It is the immortal place of the first meeting between Bertie and Jeeves. Jeeves cooks him a hangover cure and Bertie realizes he has a genie on his hands.
Wodehouse used to live in the same apartment. He based Bertie's haunts on his favorite places in London, where he lived from 1919 to 1939.
There were some dark clouds in Bertie's carefree, jobless life. Her neighbor at 47 Charles Street was Aunt Dahlia. Bertie said: "It's not often Aunt Dahlia lets her get mad...
The darkest young tof in literary history - the employer of the shimmering valet (never butler) , Jeeves - was born in 1892.
Its creator, P. G. Wodehouse, never reveals his date of birth. But he is 24 in Jeeves Takes Charge, published in November 1916. So Bertie was born 130 years ago.
To celebrate this milestone, I went on a 'browse and sluice' (eat and drink) tour of Bertie Wooster's Mayfair - the fanciest part of London, as it was in the days of Wodehouse. Georgian and Victorian homes and shops are much the same today.
And Jeeves and Wooster waterholes are still open to visitors. business.
I started outside Bertie's apartment on the third floor of 15 Berkeley Street. It is the immortal place of the first meeting between Bertie and Jeeves. Jeeves cooks him a hangover cure and Bertie realizes he has a genie on his hands.
Wodehouse used to live in the same apartment. He based Bertie's haunts on his favorite places in London, where he lived from 1919 to 1939.
There were some dark clouds in Bertie's carefree, jobless life. Her neighbor at 47 Charles Street was Aunt Dahlia. Bertie said: "It's not often Aunt Dahlia lets her get mad...
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