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Works within works

Many of Wodehouse's characters write books, plays, articles etc. Quite a few are 'anonymous'. This is a list of the fictitious works within PG's own works. Unless stated, the works listed are books. Films are omitted. Works attributed to real authors are only included if they are clearly false titles.

This page was inspired by another web site that purports to list fictitious books in other books. The only two it listed for Wodehouse were both real books by real authors. This error has been copied into Wikipedia. Oops!

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Named Writers

Sir Buckstone AbbottMy Sporting Memories
B. Henderson AsherMoments of Mirth (weekly paper series)
Lady BablockhytheFrank Recollections of a Young Life
Otis Elmer Banks, Ph.D.The Will and its Training
Rosie M. BanksA Kiss at Twilight
All for Love
A Red, Red Summer Rose
By Honour Bound
Madcap Myrtle
Only a Factory Girl
The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick
The Woman Who Braved All
Mervyn Keane, Clubman
'Twas Once in May
Tiny Fingers (short story)
J. Hamilton BeamishThe Marriage Sane (booklet)
Problem of the Reformed Criminal (article)
Pure English (booklet)
Voice Production (booklet)
Aubrey BarstoweThe Soul's Eclipse (single poem)
Aubrey Bassinger
(as Aubrey Trefusis)
Pastels in Prose (artistic writings)
Sir Raymond Bastable
(as Richard Blunt)
Cocktail Time
Owen BentleyWhite Roses (dramatization)
George BevanFollow that Girl (musical)
Louise G. BiffenCelia's Airman
Cordelia BlairHeart's Aflame (as a serial)
Thomas BlakeA Cry (poem)
Constance, Lady BodbankPolite Behaviour
Stultitia BodwinOffal
Sir Aylmer BostockReminiscences
Lavender BottsHow to Talk to the Flowers
Many of My Best Friends are Mosquitos
Many of My Best Friends are Field Mice
My Chums the Pixies
Augustus BrattleBlood by the Bucketful
Death Takes the Cure (in preparation)
Edith ButlerWhite Roses
George CallenderFate's Footballs (comedy play)
Lady CarnabyMemories of Eighty Interesting Years
Ann ChesterThe Lonely Heart (collected poems)
James CloysterActors Who Have Died on the Stage (unpublished article)
Curious Freaks of Eccentric Testators (unpublished article)
Curious Scenes in Church (unpublished article)
Dialogues of Mayfair (society column)
Duchesses Who Have Married Dustmen (unpublished article)
London and Country House Tales (society column)
Men Who Have Missed Their Own Weddings (magazine article) ²
Single Day Marriages (magazine article)
Singular Scenes in Court (unpublished article)
When It Was Lurid
James Cloyster
(as Sidney Price)
A Story in Dialogue (society dialogue)
The Secrecy of the Ballet (society dialogue)
James CorcoranMother, She's Pinching My Leg (song lyric)
Adela Shannon CorkMemoirs (in preparation)
Clarissa CorkA Woman in the Wilds
Lady Florence CrayeSpindrift
Adela CreamBlackness At Night
Sir Roger CremorneAmerica from Within
Blair EgglestonOffal
Worm i' the Bird
Professor Pepperidge FarmerSleepy Time
Lady Flora FayeTheatre Memories (as told to Reginald Tresilian)
Gerald FosterThe Primrose Way (play)
The Wild Rose (play)
Bertram FoxAshes of Romance (a motion-picture scenario)
Clifford GandleWatchman, What of the Night? (political essays)
Jeremy GarnetThe Manoeuvres of Arthur
The Outsider
Not Really a Coward (short story)
Hilda's Hero (short story)
John GoochMadeline Monk, Murderess (series of stories - in preparation)
The Mystery of the Severed Ear
Margaret GoodwinThe Girl who Waited (play)
Percy Gorringe
(as Rex West)
Blood Will Tell (working title)
Inspector Biffen Views the Body
Murder in Mauve
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish
Hawley GouldJenny, the Girl Jockey
Bill Hardy
(as Adela Bristow)
Deadly Ernest
Rev. John HattonThe Browns of Brixton
Mrs Horace HignettThe Spreading Light
What of the Morrow
Marcia HuddlestonePercy's Promise
Rev. Aubrey JerninghamIs there a Hell?
Bella Mae JobsonCharlie Chipmunk up the Orinoco
(Mr) LawsonFrenzied Finances (magazine series)
Mr Lawrie
(as Arthur James)
The Dark Horse and Other Studies in the Tragic
Bingo LittleTibby's Wonderful Adventure (short story)
What Ho, Twing!! (revue)
Emily Ann MackintoshRoses Red and Roses White
Lady MalvernIndia and the Indians
Ashe Marson
(writing as Felix Clovelly
Adventures of Gridley Quayle, Investigator - Including:
  The Adventure of the Blue Ruby
  The Adventure of the Missing Marquess
  The Adventure of the Secret Six
  The Adventure of the Wand of Death (in prep.)
Wally Mason
(as John Grant)
Tried by Fire (play)
Rutherford MaxwellWillie in the Wilderness (story and play)
Sandy McBeanHow to Become a Scratch Man Your First Season by Studying Photographs
Katie (McFarland)How I Preserve my Youth (newspaper article)
Sandy McHootsMy Life on the Links (as told to Colin Jeffson)
Ralston McToddThe Songs of Squalor (poems)
Jeff Miller(not named)
Gwendoline Moon Solitude (poems)
'Twas on an English June (poems)
Autumn Leaves (poems)
Jane Emmeline MossHer Honour at Stake (as a serial)
Charlotte MullinerVignettes in Verse (poems)
Lancelot MullinerDarkling (A Threnody) - (a poem)
Julia Burdett ParslowMoments of (with) Budding Girlhood (weekly paper series)
Col. Francis Pashley-DrakeMy Life with Rod and Gun
Sam PattersonThe Children's Book of American Birds (ghost writer)
Loretta PeabodyMy Friends the Newts
Johnny PearceInspector Jervis at Bay
Evangeline PendleburyParted Ways
Rue for Remembrance
Nesta Ford PettAt Dead of Night
A Society Thug
Joe PickeringCousin Angela (play)
Edwin T. PhilpottsMoments of Meditation (weekly paper series)
Luella Periton PhippsThe Love that Scorches
Otis PilkingtonThe Rose of America (musical)
Leila J. PinkneyScent o' the Blossom
The Love which Prevails
Heather o' the Hills
Rupert's Legacy
Bishop PontifexCollected Sermons of Bishop Pontifex
Lora Delane PorterThe Hygienic Care of the Baby
The Dawn of Better Things
Principles of Selection
What of To-Morrow
Women in the New Era (in prep.)
Muriel PrendergastThe Love of Gabriel Undershaw
Stolen Lips
Sidney PriceLady Mary's Mistake (short story)
Mr Prosser
(as Edith Butler)
White Roses
Charlton ProutGrey Myrtles (a Pastel in Prose)
Mr Raymond
(as Lady Gussie)
Straight Talks to Housewives (magazine articles)
Rodney RichA Man's Honor
John RockettReminiscences
James RodmanThe Secret Nine (in preparation)
Professor Orlando RollittAre You Your Own Master?
Wilmot Royce
(Mrs Waterfield)
Sewers of the Soul
Grey Mildew
The Stench of Life
M. Paul SartinesHistory of the Cat in Ancient Egypt (in preparation)
Reginald Seymour
as Walter Walsh
The Way of the World
Muriel SingerThe Children's Book of American Birds
Horatio SlingsbyStrychnine in the Soup
Nat SmartA Tale of the Stableyard
Rodney SpelvinThe Purple Fan
Wine of Desire (sonnet)
Cora McGuffy SpottsworthFurnace of Sin
Reginald SprockettThe Prose Ramblings of a Rhymster
Harley ThompsonSacrifice (play)
Galahad ThreepwoodReminiscences (unpublished)
Clara Throckmorton StoogeA Strong Man's Kiss
Edgar TrentBrother Masons (play)
Lady Julia UkridgeThe Heart of Adelaide (in preparation)
Vera UpshawDaffodil Days (whimsical essays)
Morning's at Seven
Jerry VailA Quick Bier for Barney
(Mr) WaterburyLandmarks of Old Tuscany (magazine article)
The Old School Cloisters (magazine article)
Some Little Known Aspects of Tacticus (magazine article)
Rev. Orlo WaterburyMy Two Years in Sunny Ceylon
Louella Grenville WatermanMoments in the Nursery (weekly paper series)
Montague WatsonThe Soul of Anthony Carrington
Pan Wakes
Lady Jane WensleydaleSixty Years Near the Knuckle in Mayfair (or similar title)
Lady Wickham
(as George Masterman)
Agatha's Vow
Blood Will Tell
Fetters of Fate
A Man for A' That
Meadowsweet
A Strong Man's Love
WhiffleWhiffle On the Care of the Pig or The Care of the Pig
Augustus WhippleOn the Care of the Pig
J. Willken WilberflossMoments Among the Masters (weekly paper series)
WodehouseWodehouse on the Niblick
Bertie WoosterWhat the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing (magazine article)
Alexander WorpleAmerican Birds
More American Birds (in preparation)
Joseph J. VanringhamThe Angel in the House (play)
Leila YorkeCupid, the Archer
For True Love Only
Heather o' the Hills
Sweet Jennie Dean
 
Name incomplete
Willoughby ?
(Bertie Wooster's uncle)
Recollections of a Long Life
 

Without named authors

(For completeness)
 
Series:
Nosegay NovelettesAll for Her
Cupid or Mammon
The Earl's Secret
Footpath's of Fate
True as Steel
Primrose Novelettes(none named)
TangoThe ABC of Modern Dancing
True Heart Novelettes(none named)
 
Other Fiction (written) Black Bill of the Mountains, or the Scourge of California
Blood on the Bannisters
The Blue Ribbon Murders
The Casterbridge Horror
Excuse My Gat
Gore by the Gallon
Grey Eyes That Gleam
Guess Who
Hearts Astir
Hyacinth
The Limehouse Mystery
The Man of Chilled Steel
The Man with the Missing Eyeball
The Man with the Missing Toe
Mark Delamere, Gentleman
Mary, the Beautiful Mill-Hand
The Masked Seven
The Missing Toe
Murder at Bilbury Manor
Murder at Greystone Grange
Murder at Mistleigh Manor
Murder at Murslow Grange
Murder in the Fog
The Murglow Manor Mystery
Pipped at the Post
The Poisoned Pin
Sand and Passion
Severed Throats
Sir Ralph's Secret
The Spinning Wheel
Three Dead at Midways Court
Three Dead at Mistleigh Court
Three Dead on Tuesday
The Trail of Blood
'Twas Once in May
The World Well Lost
 
Other Non-fiction (written) British Gardens
British Pigs
Diseases in Pigs
Ethics of Suicide (MS)
Forty Years in India
Fowls and All About Them
Gardening as a Fine Art
Hints on Cricket
Hints on Golf
Hints to Young Goal-keepers
Indian Mythology and Superstitions
Millionaires who Have Never Smoked
Modern America and its People
Notes on the Vedas
Olde Worlde England
Oriental Mythology
The Personality That Wins
Pigs, and How To Make Them Pay
Pigs at a Glance
Stepping Stones to Success
What Every Young Bridegroom Ought to Know
Wonders of Bird Life
Wonders of the Bird World
With Gun and Camera in Little Known Borneo
Young Man, Get Up Early
 
Plays and musicals The Baby Doll (musical)
The Blue Lady (musical)
Choose Your Exit (musical)
Come On In (musical)
Coralie (musical)
Cuddle Up! (revue)
The Girl and the Artist (play)
The Girl from Dublin (musical)
The Girl in Pink Pyjamas (musical)
The Grey Vampire (play)
The Hand of Doom (play)
The Heavenly Waltz (play or musical)
His Forgotten Bride (play)
The Island of Girls (play or musical)
It Pays to Flirt (musical)
Love, the Cracksman (play)
The Man from Out West (play or musical)
Mind How You Go (musical)
Only a Shop Girl (play)
The Pink Girl (musical)
The Rose Girl (musical)
She's All Right (musical comedy)
Tell it to Papa (play/farce)
'Twas Once in Spring (play)
Twisted Lives (play)
A Woman's No (play)

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1. By Order of the Czar (by Joseph Hatton) and The Mystery of the Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume, both cited in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen.
2. This was also the title of a very early magazine article by PG.