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| October 15, 1881 |
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| P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) |
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"Plum" Wodehouse, Plumheads
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| by Steve King |
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On this day in 1881, P. G. Wodehouse -- Pelham Grenville, but known as "Plum," his fans as "Plumheads" -- was born, in Surrey, England. Although he had Barons, the sister of Anne Boleyn, and noblemen who attended upon Edward the Confessor in his ancestry, Wodehouse's biographers say he liked to avoid the topic. This is not surprising for one who spent a lifetime exploring, as George Orwell put it, "the comic possibilities of the English aristocracy." The biographers also regard as a defining moment the decision by Wodehouse's parents to send him, at age two, back to England from Hong Kong, where Wodehouse's father was a magistrate ... FULL STORY »
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