Madcap Myrtle by Rosie M Banks
Author: Rosie M Banks
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse (1923)
People don’t use the word madcap much these days do they? It makes Madcap Myrtle sound very dated. But a romantic novel from the 1920s probably would feel dated.
And I wonder how many baby girls have been named Myrtle in the last 20 years? That dates this book too. I imagine her with bobbed hair and a drop waisted dress. And obviously in black and white like a silent movie.
Rosie M Banks is a prolific romantic novelist. Her works are featured in seven Wodehouse books, and many short stories. Rosie marries Bingo Little, a friend of Bertie Wooster, and a member of the Drones Club. Bingo appears in many Jeeves and Wooster stories, and after a few years of marriage, he and Rosie have a baby: Algernon Aubrey.*
Rosie M Banks’s books include All for Love,
A Red, Red Summer Rose,
Madcap Myrtle,
Only a Factory Girl,
The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick,
The Woman Who Braved All,
‘Twas Once in May,
By Honour Bound,
A Kiss at Twilight
and Mervyn Keene, Clubman. I don’t think any of these book titles would work for a modern book.
Rosie M Banks’s fans include Bingo’s uncle Lord Bittlesham, Madeline Bassett and American author Kirk Rockaway. One of Jeeves’s aunts has a complete set of her works. Bertie Wooster considers her work to be some of the most pronounced and widely-read tripe ever put on the market.
* In some mysterious fashion, boys name Aubrey has been appropriated by Americans as a name for girls. Typical.
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| Thanks to the English Garden |
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