It was past TWS president Florence Cunningham who suggested that the society honor P. G. and Ethel Wodehouse with a —famously known as “the little church around the corner”—in New York City. The estimated cost was $1,500. With the church willing and funds donated from Edward Cazalet and TWS members, Frits Menschaar and John Graham worked to arrange the plaque installation and dedication ceremony. So it was that some 20 TWSers and other Wodehouseans gathered for the weekend to enjoy various activities and attend the plaque dedication on Sunday, May 1, 1994, following the church service; Florence Cunningham and then-president Toni Rudersdorf gave speeches. Among those present were PGW’s great-grandson Hal Cazalet, Bolton and Wodehouse and Kern author Lee Davis, former Wodehouse secretary Ann Smith, and Peter Schwed (Plum’s US publisher). For a full report of the occasion, see Plum Lines, Summer 1994.
Wodehouse in the Springtime—a day of talks followed by an informal dinner—is a relatively new event for The P G Wodehouse Society (UK). Their inaugural session, in 2022, was held in Harrogate—a city to which Bertie Wooster’s Uncle George often retreated for a cure....
In December 2025, the winner of that year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction was announced. Rosanna Pike drew the brass ring for her debut novel, A Little Trickerie, published by Penguin Random House. Based on the real-life “Holy Maid of...
News from the World of Wodehouse December 8, 2025 If you live outside the U.K. but have some magical way of listening to BBC Radio 4, then be sure to tune into “Opening Lines” on December 23 at 12:45–1:00 p.m. U.K. time. The novelist Ian Sansome will be taking a...
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