Madame Eulalie’s Rare PlumsArticles and stories from The Daily Mail (UK)
Editors’ Note: Our thanks go to Arthur Robinson for tracking down scans of these rare items. Those marked ◊ below are his new discoveries in 2014 of items not listed in previous bibliographies. Items with annotations are flagged with the symbol ✎ below.
Our School Sports — June 23, 1904
Deserted Ghosts — August 22, 1904
Our School Leagues — May 13, 1905
✎ On Fast Bowling (cricket article, signed N. A. Knox, written by Wodehouse) — May 17, 1907
◊ ✎ 48 Free Kicks (report of Millwall–Crystal Palace soccer match) — September 15, 1913
◊ Bracing Leicester (report of Leicester Fosse–Bristol City soccer match) — September 29, 1913
◊ Dropped Passes (report of Gloucester-Harlequins rugby match) — October 6, 1913
◊ The Humbug of Air (article about school locations) — October 8, 1913
◊ A “Proper” Match: Blackheath Beaten (report of O.M.T.s-Blackheath rugby match) — October 13, 1913
◊ ✎ Lack of “Ginger” (report of Harlequins-Services rugby match) — October 20, 1913
◊ Game of a Lifetime (report of Blackheath-Cardiff rugby match) — November 3, 1913
◊ ✎ A Fine Team (report of Cambridge-Blackheath rugby match) — November 17, 1913
◊ Old-Fashioned Rugby (report of Haileybury-Dulwich rugby match) — December 1, 1913
◊ One-Sided Game (report of Blackheath–London Welsh rugby match) — December 8, 1913
◊ ✎ The Fascinating Mr. Lowe (preview of ’Varsity rugby match) — December 9, 1913
◊ Surprise for the Harlequins (report of Harlequins-O.M.T.s rugby match) — December 15, 1913
How to Write a Revue — December 19, 1913
◊ The Bombardment of Williamson (report of Middlesbrough-’Spurs soccer match) — December 27, 1913
◊ Finest Game of the Season (report of Harlequins-Blackheath rugby match) — December 29, 1913
◊ One-Sided Rugby (report of Harlequins-Scottish rugby match) — January 12, 1914
The Daily Mail (UK)
The Daily Mail, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) and his brother Harold (later Lord Rothermere), was first published on 4 May 1896. It was an immediate success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost one penny, and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals.
Today, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun.
Wodehouse had quite a long history with the paper, starting with items published as early as 1904, and resuming in the 1920s and ’30s with humorous articles and the serialization of the novels If I Were You and The Code of the Woosters.
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