P.G. Wodehouse was at Dulwich College from 1894 to 1900. THE DULWICH COLLEGE WODEHOUSE’S SCHOOL DAYS Wodehouse exclaimed to a Dulwich friend, fifty years after he left: QUATERCENTENARY SERIES by Jan Piggott ‘to me the years between 1896 and 1900 seem so like Heaven that I feel that everything since has been an anti-climax’. To celebrate its quatercentenary the College ORDER FORM is publishing a series of books concerned with, and inspired by, Alleynians. The first in the series – Wodehouse’s School Days The school novels and tales included his first published Book price: £20 UK delivery £3.95 per copy by Dr Jan Piggott – is now available. book, The Pothunters (1902), and the more ambitious Mike Between now and 2019 the following books Worldwide delivery POA (1909), rated by George Orwell as one of the best school will be published: stories in English. Wodehouse (seated right) with mask, The Frogs, Please send me copy/copies Founder’s Day, 1898. Dulwich Poets since 1960 Orwell diagnosed correctly that Wodehouse was ‘fixated’ by Ian Brinton Total payment £ on Dulwich. Seven of his earliest books were set in a This is a critical history of the scarcely modified Dulwich College, as were the thirty-six extraordinarily influential range of poetry I enclose a cheque for made payable to stories in Edwardian boys’ magazines. They restore to which developed at the College in the post- DULWICH COLLEGE ENTERPRISES LTD, drawn on us a lost world of rich comedy, wit and wisdom about war period. a UK bank account. schools and growing up, conceived out of love for his old school. These refreshing works, sophisticated and Alleynian Minds Online Ordering ironic, are prototypes of the Master’s mature fiction, edited by Neil Croally Copies can be ordered online at precociously and unmistakably Wodehouse. The book The College has a fine record of producing www.shop.dulwich.org.uk/store includes copious material from the Dulwich College intellectuals in a wide range of disciplines.
T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), Mike, 1909. Archives, as well as over twenty original illustrations This book will provide biographies and from the school novels and tales. bibliographies of some of those intellectuals, as well as including samples of some of the Dr Jan Piggott, FSA, author of finest writing produced by Alleynian minds. this study, was formerly Head of English and Keeper of the Archives The Dulwich Experiment at Dulwich College. He shows how During the post-war period the College Wodehouse, between 1902 and 1911, was transformed by the now famous Dulwich Experiment. This book will trace by youthful alchemy transformed the the development and successes of the primary material of his late Victorian experiment. experience at a great new public school into a fascinating body of fiction, now Raymond Chandler almost neglected in the shade of his T.M.R. Whitwell (illus.), ‘The Lost Lambs’ (Mike), This book will contain a variety of essays more popular books. The Captain, May 1908. from a range of scholars.
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