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Reading Diary: Jeeves, Country Houses and the Fine Art of the Preposterous Aunt

November 14, 2026 by admin

Reading Diary: Jeeves, Country Houses and the Fine Art of the Preposterous Aunt – A week among twentieth century comic novels, with a guide to professional joke-craft and a pastoral shelf for readers of manor-house novels

Categories comedywriterinfo, Today Tags 1900s British literature, comedy writing, comedywriterinfo, comic novels, country house, English humour, Jeeves, London, P G Wodehouse, reading diary

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