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WODEHOUSE’S SCHOOL DAYS by Jan Piggott ORDER FORM Book price: £20 UK delivery £3.95 per copy Worldwide delivery POA Please send me copy/copies Total payment £ I enclose a cheque for made payable to DULWICH COLLEGE ENTERPRISES LTD, drawn on a UK bank account. Online Ordering Copies can be ordered online at www.shop.dulwich.org.uk/store The school novels and tales included his first published book, The Pothunters (1902), and the more ambitious Mike (1909), rated by George Orwell as one of the best school stories in English. Orwell diagnosed correctly that Wodehouse was ‘fixated’ on Dulwich. Seven of his earliest books were set in a scarcely modified Dulwich College, as were the thirty-six stories in Edwardian boys’ magazines. They restore to us a lost world of rich comedy, wit and wisdom about schools and growing up, conceived out of love for his old school. These refreshing works, sophisticated and ironic, are prototypes of the Master’s mature fiction, precociously and unmistakably Wodehouse. The book includes copious material from the Dulwich College Archives, as well as over twenty original illustrations from the school novels and tales. Dr Jan Piggott, FSA, author of this study, was formerly Head of English and Keeper of the Archives at Dulwich College. He shows how Wodehouse, between 1902 and 1911, by youthful alchemy transformed the primary material of his late Victorian experience at a great new public school into a fascinating body of fiction, now almost neglected in the shade of his more popular books. P.G. Wodehouse was at Dulwich College from 1894 to 1900. Wodehouse exclaimed to a Dulwich friend, fifty years after he left: ‘to me the years between 1896 and 1900 seem so like Heaven that I feel that everything since has been an anti-climax’. T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), Mike, 1909. T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), ‘I believe the stuff was poisoned’. ‘An International Affair’, The Captain, September 1905. T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), ‘The Lost Lambs’ (Mike), The Captain, May 1908. Wodehouse (seated right) with mask, The Frogs, Founder’s Day, 1898. THE DULWICH COLLEGE QUATERCENTENARY SERIES To celebrate its quatercentenary the College is publishing a series of books concerned with, and inspired by, Alleynians. The first in the series – Wodehouse’s School Days by Dr Jan Piggott – is now available. Between now and 2019 the following books will be published: Dulwich Poets since 1960 by Ian Brinton This is a critical history of the extraordinarily influential range of poetry which developed at the College in the post- war period. Alleynian Minds edited by Neil Croally The College has a fine record of producing intellectuals in a wide range of disciplines. This book will provide biographies and bibliographies of some of those intellectuals, as well as including samples of some of the finest writing produced by Alleynian minds. The Dulwich Experiment During the post-war period the College was transformed by the now famous Dulwich Experiment. This book will trace the development and successes of the experiment. Raymond Chandler This book will contain a variety of essays from a range of scholars.
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WODEHOUSE’S SCHOOL DAYS
by Jan Piggott
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Book price: £20 UK delivery £3.95 per copy
Worldwide delivery POA
Please send me copy/copies
Total payment £
I enclose a cheque for made payable to DULWICH COLLEGE ENTERPRISES LTD, drawn on a UK bank account.
Online Ordering
Copies can be ordered online at www.shop.dulwich.org.uk/store
The school novels and tales included his first published book, The Pothunters (1902), and the more ambitious Mike (1909), rated by George Orwell as one of the best school stories in English.
Orwell diagnosed correctly that Wodehouse was ‘fixated’ on Dulwich. Seven of his earliest books were set in a scarcely modified Dulwich College, as were the thirty-six stories in Edwardian boys’ magazines. They restore to us a lost world of rich comedy, wit and wisdom about schools and growing up, conceived out of love for his old school. These refreshing works, sophisticated and ironic, are prototypes of the Master’s mature fiction, precociously and unmistakably Wodehouse. The book includes copious material from the Dulwich College
Archives, as well as over twenty original illustrations from the school novels and tales.
Dr Jan Piggott, FSA, author of this study, was formerly Head of English and Keeper of the Archives at Dulwich College. He shows how Wodehouse, between 1902 and 1911, by youthful alchemy transformed the primary material of his late Victorian experience at a great new public school into a fascinating body of fiction, now almost neglected in the shade of his more popular books.
P.G. Wodehouse was at Dulwich College from 1894 to 1900. Wodehouse exclaimed to a Dulwich friend, fifty years after he left: ‘to me the years between 1896 and 1900 seem so like Heaven that I feel that everything since has been an anti-climax’.
T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), Mike, 1909.
T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), ‘I believe the stuff was poisoned’.
‘An International Affair’, The Captain, September 1905.
T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), ‘The Lost Lambs’ (Mike),
The Captain, May 1908.
Wodehouse (seated right) with mask, The Frogs,
Founder’s Day, 1898.
THE DULWICH COLLEGE QUATERCENTENARY SERIES
To celebrate its quatercentenary the College is publishing a series of books concerned with, and inspired by, Alleynians. The first
in the series – Wodehouse’s School Days by Dr Jan Piggott – is now available.
Between now and 2019 the following books will be published:
Dulwich Poets since 1960 by Ian Brinton
This is a critical history of the extraordinarily influential range of poetry
which developed at the College in the post-war period.
Alleynian Minds edited by Neil Croally
The College has a fine record of producing intellectuals in a wide range of disciplines.
This book will provide biographies and bibliographies of some of those intellectuals, as well as including samples of some of the finest writing produced by Alleynian minds.
The Dulwich ExperimentDuring the post-war period the College
was transformed by the now famous Dulwich Experiment. This book will trace
the development and successes of the experiment.
Raymond Chandler This book will contain a variety of essays
from a range of scholars.
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