Wodehouse said that he based Psmith on Rupert D'Oyly Carte (1876-1948), the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, as he put it "the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a silver plate with watercress around it". Carte was a school acquaintance of a cousin of Wodehouse at Winchester College, according to an introduction to Leave It to Psmith. Rupert's daughter, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, however, believed that the Wykehamist schoolboy described to Wodehouse was not her father but his elder brother Lucas, who was also at Winchester (Wikipedia)
While all the others, Jeeves & Wooster /The Blandings characters /Uckridge etc etc are all wonderful, to me Psmith is Plum's finest creation. With Uncle Fred a not too distant 2nd. As I think it was Stephen Fry who said, I would not be half the man I am without having read PG Wodehpuse
Yet Wodehouse’s favorite characters were Jeeves&Wooster and lord Emsworth, he mentions it in one of his interviews: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-skUTvRZTFJM.htmlsi=iwuIaPPm78Av3Jek
Good lord! No productive comments on Wodehouse writing a tale about Mike and Psmith!?!? The world has truly gone absolutely mad as a hatter! Nevertheless, here we have Psmith. A wise and wise cracking chap often guilty of working canards into something beyond belief. Nothing is out of bounds for Psmith and sadly this includes poor Mike Jackson. I highly recommend this and all of Wodehouse's instalments! Enjoy... Cheers.
Dulwich College and a bank with branches in Asia. These are obviously references to Wodehouse's early life. No wonder these are so well written and researched.
