TWS founder Bill Blood first proposed placing a marker in Remsenburg, where both Plum and Ethel are buried, in 1984, but it wasn’t until 2011 that members Bob Rains and Andrea Jacobsen took on the task and carried it off brilliantly. That year they did the necessary research and estimated that erecting a marker would cost up to $5,000. TWS’s Board agreed to pay $500 towards this, and a fundraising campaign resulted in numerous generous contributions. Less than a year later, on April 22, 2012, more than 80 people from the U.S., England, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Japan assembled for a service at the chapel. This was followed by the marker’s unveiling and dedication, also attended by several local folks who had known the Wodehouses. The day proved very wet but was enjoyed by all who attended. For a full report of the occasion, see the Plum Lines, Summer 2012.
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...
12/1/25: A new chapter in our 45-ish-year-old journal has begun! After nearly 20 years in the editor-in-chief seat for Plum Lines, that title - along with the moniker of OM - has been bestowed on Tad Boehmer, as you will see when you receive the December 2025...
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