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=== Literature === * The short story "Clubs are Trumps" was written by [[Hugh Kingsmill]] as a sequel to the Jeeves story "The Purity of the Turf". It was published in 1931 in an issue of ''[[The English Review]]'', and reprinted in ''The Best of Hugh Kingsmill'', published in 1970 by Victor Gollancz, London.<ref>McIlvaine (1990), p. 328, L16. The story was printed on pp. 574β585 in ''English Review'' 53 and pp. 385β395 in ''The Best of Hugh Kingsmill.</ref> * In the 20 May 1953 issue of ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', writer [[Julian Maclaren-Ross]] wrote a [[parody]] of the Jeeves stories titled "Good Lord, Jeeves". In the story, Bertie loses his wealth and needs a job; Jeeves, who has just been elevated to the [[British peerage|peerage]], hires Bertie as his valet. Wodehouse wrote to Maclaren-Ross saying how much he liked it.<ref>Wodehouse (2011), ''P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters'', pp. 457β460. For the parody, see Maclaren-Ross, "Good Lord, Jeeves", ''Punch'', 20 May 1953, Vol. CCXXIV, No. 5876, pp. 592β593.</ref> It was included in Maclaren-Ross's book ''The Funny Bone'', published in 1956 by Elek, London.<ref>McIlvaine (1990), p. 328, L21.</ref> * In the 1970s and 1980s, Jeeves and Bertie Wooster were featured in a number of full-page magazine print advertisements for Croft Original Sherry. The advertisements each had comedic prose imitating Wodehouse's writing style and a colour illustration similar to the magazine illustrations that originally appeared with many of Wodehouse's stories.<ref>Two examples appear in the 7 December and 14 December 1977 issues of the UK magazine ''Punch'', each with an illustration by Brian Hughes.</ref> * ''Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman'' (1981), a fictional biography of Jeeves by [[C. Northcote Parkinson|Northcote Parkinson]], attempts to provide background information about him.<ref>{{Cite book |author= Parkinson, C. Northcote |orig-year= 1979 |year=1981 |title= Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman |edition= U.S. |location= New York |publisher= St. Martin's Press |isbn= 0-312-44144-4 |author-link=C. Northcote Parkinson}}</ref> * "Scream for Jeeves" (1990) was written under the pseudonym H. P. G. Wodecraft (actually [[Peter Cannon]]) and published in ''[[Crypt of Cthulhu]]'' #72. It purports to put Jeeves and Bertie Wooster into the action of Lovecraft's "[[The Rats in the Walls]]". It was later included in ''Scream for Jeeves: A Parody'' (1994), which contains two more Lovecraft fusions, titled "Something Foetid" and "The Rummy Affair of Young Charlie". * ''Wake Up, Sir!'' (2005) by [[Jonathan Ames]] is a homage to the Bertie and Jeeves novels. * ''Jeeves and the Wedding Bells'' (2013), a [[pastiche]] novel authorized by the Wodehouse estate, was written by British novelist [[Sebastian Faulks]], who became the first writer authorized by the Wodehouse estate to produce a new fiction utilizing the Jeeves and Wooster characters. * The short story "Greeves and the Evening Star" by [[Matt Hughes (writer)|Matt Hughes]], published in the 2015 anthology ''[[Old Venus]]'', is a science fiction parody of Jeeves and Wooster that takes place on the planet Venus.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shippey |first=Tom |date=13 March 2015 |title=Science Fiction: The Lost World |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-old-venus-edited-by-gardner-dozois-and-george-r-r-martin-1426269581 |work=The Wall Street Journal |location=New York |access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref> The characters based on Jeeves and Bertie Wooster are renamed Greeves and Bartie Gloster. * ''[[Jeeves and the King of Clubs]]'' (2018), a pastiche novel authorized by the Wodehouse estate, was written by [[Ben Schott]]. A sequel by Schott titled ''Jeeves and the Leap of Faith'' was released in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/jeeves-and-the-leap-of-faith-by-ben-schott-review-mpr38csq2 |title=Jeeves and the Leap of Faith by Ben Schott, review β a 'new' Wodehouse |last=Grylls |first=David |date=24 October 2020 |website=[[The Times]]}}</ref>
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