Jill the Reckless
Herbert Jenkins (UK) | |
Publication date | 1920(US), 1921 (UK) |
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| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) & (Serial) |
| Pages | ? pp |
Jill The Reckless is a novel by
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 an adventure with a parrot, a policeman and the colourful proletariat; financial disaster; 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 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.
The dust jacket of the UK first edition published by Herbert Jenkins was designed by Edmund Blampied.
References
- ISBN 087008125X
External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters
- The Little Warrior at Project Gutenberg
Jill the Reckless public domain audiobook at LibriVox
