Devoted American pilgrims move Jeeves, Bertie Wooster and Blandings Castle to Seattle

PG Wodehouse’s biographer joins an annual convention to celebrate the US passion for the most English of comic writers

You might expect that the society devoted to the memory of PG Wodehouse and his works would celebrate its biennial “international convention” somewhere in Shropshire, deep in Wodehouse country, perhaps a bread roll’s throw from Blandings Castle. But the strange truth about the author of the Jeeves & Wooster stories is that he is as much honoured – and better remembered – in America than in Britain.

Which is one reason why the 18th convention of the Wodehouse Society was held last week in Seattle, world headquarters of Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft and Boeing, grunge capital of the American music business and home of the late Kurt Cobain.

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