Blandings Castle

"Blandings" redirects here. For the 2013 TV series, see Blandings (TV series).
For the 1935 collection of Wodehouse's short stories, see Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

Blandings Castle is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being the seat of Lord Emsworth (Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth), home to many of his family and the setting for numerous tales and adventures. The stories were written between 1915 and 1975.

The series of stories taking place at the castle, in its environs and involving its denizens have come to be known as the "Blandings books", or, in a phrase used by Wodehouse in his preface to the 1969 reprint of the first book, "the Blandings Castle Saga".[1]

In a radio broadcast on 15 July 1961, Evelyn Waugh said: "The gardens of Blandings Castle are that original garden from which we are all exiled."[2]

  1. ^ Wodehouse, P. G. (1969). "Preface [new since the 1969 edition]". Something Fresh. Something Fresh was the first of what I might call – in fact, I will call – the Blandings Castle Saga.
  2. ^ Waugh, Evelyn (16 July 1961). "Text of broadcast over Home Service of BBC". Sunday Times. [reprinted as: Waugh, Evelyn (1983). "An Act of Homage and Reparation". In Gallagher, Donat (ed.). The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company. p. 567. ISBN 9780316926430.]