' Aunt Agatha Takes the Count' - Aunt Agatha pushes an unwilling Bertie to marry a girl named Aline Hemingway, who, along with her brother Sidney, appears to be quiet and respectable.('Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum' and 'No Wedding Bells for Bingo') Jeeves suggests a plan using romance novels to sway Bingo's uncle. ' Jeeves in the Springtime' - Bertie's friend Bingo is in love with a waitress, Mabel, but fears his uncle won't approve of her.The original story titles and publication dates were as follows (with split chapter titles in parentheses): This was the second collection of Jeeves stories, after My Man Jeeves (1919) the next collection would be Carry On, Jeeves, in 1925.Īll of the short stories are connected and most of them involve Bertie's friend Bingo Little, who is always falling in love. All the other stories appeared in Cosmopolitan in the US between December 1921 and December 1922. That story had appeared in the Saturday Evening Post (US) in June 1918. It is now often printed in 11 chapters, mirroring the original stories.Īll the stories had previously appeared in The Strand Magazine in the UK, between December 1921 and November 1922, except for one, ' Jeeves and the Chump Cyril', which had appeared in the Strand in August 1918. The novel combined 11 previously published stories, of which the first six and the last were split in two, to make a book of 18 chapters. Doran, New York, on 28 September 1923, under the title Jeeves. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on and in the United States by George H. Wodehouse was the first of the Jeeves novels, although not originally conceived as a single narrative, being assembled from a number of short stories featuring the same characters.

The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse