History Creator / PGWodehouse

* AffectionateParody: "Honeysuckle Cottage" is a loving parody of Creator/HenryJames and his tales of haunted houses that distort the lives of those who live in them. Except, of course, instead of finding himself in a supernatural horror battling sinister ghosts from the past, the main character is horrified to find himself trapped in an unbearably sentimental romance.

* GrandeDame: Wodehouse (very likely under the inspiration of Creator/WSGilbert) may well claim to be the patron saint of this trope. For well over sixty years, he devised every variation imaginable, from the lovable Aunt Dahlia to the truly horrible Heloise, Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek (a RichBitch who is not even funny). Perhaps the most typical is the formidable Lady Constance (she is, of course, the sister of the many-sistered Lord Emsworth in the "Blandings Castle" saga), but the apotheosis is Bertie's Aunt Agatha, who "chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth."

%% * ScaryBlackMan: Peteiro, Sheen's opponent in the final match of the boxing championship at the end of ''The White Feather''.

** A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against ''Summer Lightning''. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.

%% * {{Adorkable}}: Plenty of his heroes, the well-intentioned twits in particular.

Wodehouse reacted to the criticism by emigrating to the United States, becoming an American citizen, and never coming back to England for the rest of his life. He still got a knighthood from [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]] in January 1975. He died a month later at the age of 93, saying that with his knighthood and a waxwork in Madame Tussaud's, he had achieved all of his life's ambitions. He worked right to the end; his last Jeeves novel was published a few months before his death and he was working on a Blandings novel when he passed away, which was published posthumously and half-finished as ''Sunset at Blandings''.

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%% * {{Expy}}: Certain character types recurr in novel after novel.

* GreatWhiteHunter: Captain Biggar is ''Ring for Jeeves'' actually refers to himself as this, and really digs into this trope.

* TheVerse: Virtually all of his works seem to be set in the same world; major characters from one work will often be mentioned casually in another, and the same fictional locations pop up in various works as well.

%% * BrickJoke: With the Ukridge story "A Bit of Luck for Mabel", he manages to make the ''title'' into one of these.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted at every opportunity -- if a child appears in a Wodehouse story, nine times out of ten he (it's usually a he) will be an obnoxious grubby little pest.

* SeriousBusiness: The climax of "The Nodder" involves a debate over the correct sound that a cuckoo makes getting so heated that it climaxes with a man clarifying the matter as if he's passionately inciting a jury to acquit someone wrongfully and unjustly accused of murder.

* TheoryOfNarrativeCausality: The titular house of "Honeysuckle Cottage" seems to have an unerring ability to turn the life of anyone who lives in it into a plot straight out of a sentimental romance novel.

* SpareToTheThrone: Lord Marshmoreton in ''A Damsel In Distress'' was the son of a younger son who never expected to inherit the estate. He'd planned to earn his living on a fruit farm in Canada, the deaths of his uncle and cousin landed him with the land and title.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Sir Roderick and Lady Monica 'Moke' Carmoyle in ''Ring for Jeeves''. He's a rather beefy, red-faced aristocrat, she's described as "small and vivacious" and has a penchant for sunbathing naked. They're very fond of each other, though.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: George Orwell observed of Wodehouse that he never permitted himself the luxury of a sex joke, but in ''Ring for Jeeves'', one of the characters, Rory, repeatedly observes of his "small and vivacious" wife Monica that after spending the summer in Cannes, she's "tanned all over", the strong implication being that she's been sunbathing nude. Monica makes no attempt to deny this.[[note]]''Ring for Jeeves'' is in many ways an uncharacteristic novel for Wodehouse, being explicitly set after WW2. The upper-class characters have all had to get jobs and despite it being a Jeeves novel, Bertie isn't in it because he's off at a school which is teaching the aristocracy to support itself.[[/note]]

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%% * AFriendInNeed: Many characters help others through their intrigues.

* ''Literature/BlandingsCastle''

* SeriousBusiness: The climax of "The Nodder" involves a debate over the correct sound that a cuckoo makes getting so heated that it climaxes with a man clarifying the matter as if he's passionately inciting a jury to acquit someone facing a wrongful conviction on an unjust murder charge.