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Oct 9, 1984 · Wodehouse met the former Ethel Crowley, a widow and the daughter of an English farmer, in New York in 1914. They were married eight weeks later.
- An Innocent Abroad
- Propaganda Pawn
- Plum Joins The Greats
When the war broke out in September 1939, Wodehouse and his wife Ethel lived in Le Touquet, within convenient distance of both Cherbourg, for the cross-channel ferries, and Paris. Rather than immediately returning to England, the Wodehouses decided to stay put – and this decision was to prove fateful. When the Blitzkrieg started and the Nazis invad...
As a direct response to the interview with Thuermer, Wodehouse’s American friends started campaigning even harder for his release and it was this political agitation that attracted the notice of leading Nazis in Berlin who only then became aware of the propaganda potential of their prisoner. The political manoeuvres that followed in Berlin, especia...
The British Library’s acquisition of Wodehouse’s archive, including his war-time papers, is an important step towards the recognition of PG Wodehouse as a great of 20th-century British literature – not just as a comic writer but as an accomplished artist who enriched English culture through a host of immortal characters. From Bertie Wooster and his...
- Christine Berberich
Jun 4, 2019 · What Happened After P.G. Wodehouse Was Captured During World War II. ... Ethel, in Berlin. According to the Nazi censor-approved caption, the man on the right was a Foreign Office representative. ...
- Tina Jordan
Sep 30, 1996 · Plack's name also surfaces in a money transfer of 560,000F, which in late autumn 1944 made its way into Ethel Wodehouse's account via the Swiss consulate. Why a Reich official, as his country was ...
Wodehouse and his wife, Ethel, had lived in Le Touquet since 1934. The speed of the German advance, through northern France, in May 1940, took the Wodehouses - as it took the British High Command - by surprise. Wodehouse was captured and sent to an internment camp at Tost in Upper Silesia. In June 1941, he was released, and taken to Berlin.
Wodehouse made his first trip to America in 1904 and by 1909 was coming regularly. In August of 1914, Wodehouse met a young widow named Ethel Newton in New York. By the end of September, they were married—quick service for a shy chap, you might say, but probably instigated more by Ethel than the retiring Plum.
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Wodehouse, in his words, preferred to spread “sweetness and light”. Just look at those titles: Nothing Serious, Laughing Gas, Joy in the Morning. With every sparkling joke, every well-meaning ...
