Honored in Seattle …

… Devoted American pilgrims move Jeeves, Bertie Wooster and Blandings Castle to Seattle | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Few 20th-century writers could be more quintessentially English than Pelham Grenville “Plum” Wodehouse. His name guarantees an escape into a lost world of upper-class frivolity: Mayfair lounge lizards, dreamy, pig-loving earls, inscrutable butlers and, of course, the “mentally negligible” Bertie Wooster and his omniscient manservant Jeeves, who happen to be celebrating their centenary this year.