The Mating Season (novel)

The Mating Season
First edition (UK)
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJeeves
GenreComic novel
PublisherHerbert Jenkins (UK)
Didier & Co. (US)
Publication date
9 September 1949 (UK)
29 November 1949 (US)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byJoy in the Morning 
Followed byRing for Jeeves 

The Mating Season is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1949 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on November 29, 1949, by Didier & Co., New York.[1]

Featuring the well-intentioned Bertie Wooster and his resourceful valet Jeeves, the novel takes place at Deverill Hall, where Esmond Haddock lives with his five overcritical aunts. The story concerns the relationships of several couples, most notably Gussie Fink-Nottle and Madeline Bassett, Esmond Haddock and Corky Potter-Pirbright, and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright and Gertrude Winkworth.

  1. ^ McIlvaine (1990), pp. 83-84, A69.