VIRTUAL LECTURE (LIVE) | Susannah Fullerton: P.G. Wodehouse and Jeeves & Wooster

Join Susannah Fullerton as she presents her lecture P.G Wodehouse and Jeeves & Wooster via Zoom. Please ensure you have downloaded and signed up to Zoom before the lecture begins https://zoom.us/

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The novels and stories which tell us of the mad adventures of foolish Bertie Wooster, who so often needs rescuing by his inimitable and sagacious valet Jeeves, are some of the most widely read humorous works of the 20^th century.

Get to know Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, the man behind the characters, and find out how he upset the whole of Britain in 1941 and how he responded to the shock he caused.

The first story featuring Jeeves and Wooster came out in 1915, but it was in the 1930s and 40s that the characters reached their peak as comic creations. What is the secret of their charm and why, in our stressful Covid world, do we still need to sink with pleasure into the wonderful world of Jeeves and Wooster?

Susannah Fullerton has been the President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia for more than twenty years. She has written several books about Jane Austen and has lectured about her favourite novelist around Australia and overseas. She received an OAM for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW. Susannah is also the Patron of the Kipling Society of Australia. She leads literary tours to the UK, Europe, NZ and the USA, and she sends out a popular and free monthly blog, ‘Notes from a Book Addict’ which you can sign up for on her website. Susannah is one of ADFAS’s most popular Australia lecturers and she offers a wide range of talks about famous writers and their works.

Image| Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Hugh Laurie as Wooster in Jeeves & Wooster (1990-93). Picture Partnership Productions and Granada Television.