''Jill The Reckless'' is a novel by

P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, ( ; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. His creations include the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeev ...

, first published in the United States on October 8, 1920McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) ''P.G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist''. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 36-37. by

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, New York, (under the title ''The Little Warrior''), and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 4 July 1921. It was serialised in ''

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'' (US) between 10 April and 28 August 1920, in ''

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'' (Canada) between 1 August and 15 November 1920, in both cases as ''The Little Warrior'', and, as ''Jill the Reckless'', in the ''

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'' (UK), from September 1920 to June 1921. The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a sweet-natured and wealthy young woman who, at the opening, is engaged to an MP, the baronet Sir Derek Underhill. We follow her through financial disaster, an adventure with a parrot, a policeman and the colourful proletariat, a broken engagement, an awkward stay with some grasping relatives, employment as a chorus girl, and the finding of true love. Other characters include wealthy, dimwitted clubman Freddie Rooke and ruggedly attractive writer Wally Mason (both childhood friends of Jill's); her financially inept but charming uncle Major Christopher Selby; Sir Derek's domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant relatives on Long Island, New York, Elmer, Julia and Tibby Mariner;

Drones Club The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London. Many of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members. Various members ...

member Algy Martyn; various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types; and miscellaneous servants. George Bevan, composer hero of Wodehouse's previous work '' A Damsel in Distress'', receives a passing mention, as does an unspecified member of the Threepwood family. Algy Martyn later appears in ''

Company for Henry ''Company For Henry'' is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 12 May 1967 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title ''The Purloined Paperweight'', and in the United Kingdom on 26 October 1967 by Barrie ...

''. The dust jacket of the UK first edition published by Herbert Jenkins was designed by

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References

External links

The Russian Wodehouse Society's page
with numerous book covers and a list of characters * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jill The Reckless Novels by P. G. Wodehouse 1920 American novels American comedy novels Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in Collier's Herbert Jenkins books British comedy novels George H. Doran Company books