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Article: The green baize door: social identity in Wodehouse; Part two.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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P.G. Wodehouse has been said to have invented the 'upper class twit', an expression which would have surprised him. His heroes--if that is the word--include not only the Woosters, Fotheringay-Phippses, Twistleton-Twistletons, Fink-Nottles, Carmody's, Threepwoods, Potter-Pirbrights, Byngs, the Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, and others of the Drones Club, the young men from Eton and Oxford or Cambridge who might be described as 'social butterflies' or 'parasites'; but as many drawn from the world with which Wodehosue was personally more familiar, that of the young man of respectable family, perhaps with distant aristocratic connections of no conceivable advantage, even in the ...