Linda Newell (1950–2015)

In the interests of full disclosure, this was written by my mum. We thought similarly and it is form her have my love of reading and language. I can hear her saying this, which is an odd sensation, as she's no longer with us.
It's a bit of a stretch this one, PG Wodehouse lived in Emsworth for a few years prior to the first world war. He took on the elase of a house, which now has a blue plaque to adorn it. He made use of a number of names in the vicinity to populate his later books, the most obvious being Emsworth, the name of the village I grew up in.
There's a secion on PG's early life, his time in Emsworth, his later life and Emsworth the village as he would have known it. The time he spent in Emsworth is the shortest section, hence the material has been stretched just a little!
If one is being critical, a few too many uses of the exclamation mark and I spotted a few typos. But it is informative and unlikely to go out of date.… (més)