Full Moon (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Farce
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century, after World War I
- Setting: Blandings Castle, an estate in Great Britain
- Genres: Long fiction, Farce, Wit and humor
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Social issues, England or English people, Castles, Pigs, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Clarence Threepwood, the ninth earl of Emsworth, the vague and woolly-headed master of Blandings Castle, somewhere in Shropshire. In the opinion of his younger brother Galahad—who has had ample opportunity to form a reasoned judgment—his IQ is about thirty points lower than that of a not-too-agile-minded jellyfish. He is ruled by whichever of his ten sisters happens to be in residence at Blandings, in this case Lady Hermione Wedge. The widowed father of Freddie Threepwood, he is devoted chiefly to his black Berkshire sow, the Empress of Blandings.
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