A serial in Pan Magazine (UK)

 

This novel appeared in book form in the UK as The Girl on the Boat, and as Three Men and a Maid in both its magazine serializations and as a US book. Each version is differently cut from Wodehouse’s original, and this Pan serial has passages which appear in no other version. We are pleased to present a color-coded transcription, in which text unique to this serial appears in blue, text omitted from the UK book is in green, and text omitted from the US book is in purple type.

See the annotations on this site for more information on the versions.

 

Three Men and a Maid - Part 1 — February 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 2 — March 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 3 — April 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 4 — May 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 5 — June 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 6 — July 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 7 — August 1921

Three Men and a Maid - Part 8 — September 1921

 

This advertisement appeared in the Daily Telegraph, January 28, 1921:

Pan Magazine

Pan had an unusual history; it had an initial run of only three issues in February to April 1919 as a bohemian tabloid, relaunching in November 1919 with a mixture of fiction and articles “for Saints and Cynics.” Wodehouse’s serial crossed over the magazine’s transformation to a standard pulp format beginning with the July 1921 issue.

Wodehouse published only one serial novel in the magazine, in 1921. Though the serial title matched the USA hardcover publication, in the UK the first book edition was brought out by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. in 1922 under the title of The Girl on the Boat.

Thanks to the FictionMags Index for magazine history and cover image.

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