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TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? P. G. Wodehouse's My Man Jeeves

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050724
Author:Gary Dexter

MY MAN JEEVES (1919) was Wodehouse's first Jeeves title (Jeeves had appeared briefly in an earlier short story, Extricating Young Gussie, in 1917). The name came from the world of cricket. Percy Jeeves was, by all accounts, a very useful player. An attacking right- hand bat, medium fast bowler, he played first-class cricket from 1912- 14 and was tipped as a future England player by captain Plum Warner. Wodehouse wrote: "It must have been in 1913 that I paid a visit to my parents in Cheltenham and went to see Warwickshire play... I suppose Jeeves's bowling must have impressed me, for I ...

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