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The Adventures of Sally

Mostly Sally (U.S.)

A novel

When Sally inherits some money, the blessing is well disguised.

On holiday in France she meets Ginger who proposes, and his cousin, Bruce, who also falls for her. But Sally is secretly engaged to Gerald who is about to have his first play produced with a most unsuitable star.

When Ginger arrives in New York, Sally gets him a job with her brother Fillmore who, with his usual delusions of grandeur, has decided to put on a revue with his actress fiancée in the lead part. When Gerald deserts Sally and Bruce pursues her to America, her emotional and financial futures become confused. Sally's adventures have just begun.

Publishing Information

UK:1922 Herbert Jenkins
1986 Penguin (used here)
US:1922 Doran as Mostly Sally
1922 A. L. Burt (re-print authorized by Doran)

Published 1921* in Collier's weekly magazine (US).
Also published in Household Magazine (US) Nov 1925 to April 1926 as Mostly Sally.

* Probably 8 October to 31 December 1921 but one bookseller has expressed doubt over whether the 31 December issue was the last instalment.

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Written while PG was heavily involved with the London and Broadway stage, the theatre world provides the basis of a classic Wodehouse novel set mainly in New York, with trips to France, England and Detroit thrown in for good measure mirroring his own life of travels.