Literary Criticism:
- Wodehouse, P. G. (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- P. G. Wodehouse publishes The Code of the Woosters
- P. G. Wodehouse publishes The Inimitable Jeeves
- The fictional twosome of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves is introduced by P. G. Wodehouse in the story “Extricating Young Gussie,” published in The Saturday Evening Post
- P. G. Wodehouse is born
- P. G. Wodehouse dies
- Evelyn Waugh publishes “An Act of Homage and Reparation to P. G. Wodehouse”—perhaps the single-most influential plea for restoring Wodehouse's reputation among the English—in the London Sunday Times
- P. G. Wodehouse publishes Joy in the Morning
- Having been released from Geman custody, P. G. Wodehouse records the first of five controversial broadcast talks from Berlin, describing his recent incarceration in humorous terms
- P. G. Wodehouse, living at villa in Le Touquet, France, is arrested and interned by German occupation forces, as are all English nationals under the age of 60
