Rosie M. Banks

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Rosie M. Banks is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a romance novelist and the wife of Bingo Little. Suggested real-life models for this character include prolific early twentieth-century female romance novelists such as Ethel M. Dell^{[citation needed]} and Ruby M. Ayres^[1].

Contents 1 Overview 2 Stories 3 Actresses 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Overview

Rosie M. Banks is a romance novelist, the author of fictional works such as: All for Love; A Red, Red Summer Rose; Madcap Myrtle; Only a Factory Girl; The Courtship of Lord Strathmorlick; Mervyn Keene, Clubman; 'Twas Once in May; By Honour Bound; and A Kiss at Twilight.

She submitted an article for Milady's Boudoir (the women's paper of Dahlia Travers, Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia), entitled "How I Keep the Love of my Husband-Baby", which, fortunately for her husband, hasn't been published.

She employed chef extraordinaire Anatole until Aunt Dahlia stole him from her with the help of Jeeves (in "Clustering Round Young Bingo"), and is thus unlikely to further write for Mrs Travers.

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[edit] Stories

Rosie M. Banks is featured in one semi-novel and many short stories:

• The Inimitable Jeeves (1923) - Jeeves semi-novel
• "Clustering Round Young Bingo" (1925) - Drones short story, collected in Carry on, Jeeves (1925)
• "Jeeves and the Old School Chum" (1930) - Jeeves short story, collected in Very Good, Jeeves (1930)
• "All's Well With Bingo" (1937) - Drones short story, collected in Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940)
• "Bingo and the Peke Crisis" (1937) - Drones short story, collected in Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940)
• "The Editor Regrets" (1939) - Drones short story, collected in Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940)
• "Sonny Boy" (1939) - Drones short story, collected in Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets (1940)
• "The Word in Season" (1940) - Drones short story, collected in A Few Quick Ones (1959)
• "The Shadow Passes" (1950) - Drones short story, new in Nothing Serious (1950)
• "Leave It to Algy" (1954) - Drones short story, collected in A Few Quick Ones (1959)
• "Bingo Bans the Bomb" (1965) - Drones short story, collected in Plum Pie (1966)
• "Stylish Stouts" (1965) - Drones short story, collected in Plum Pie (1966)

Rosie M. Banks is mentioned in:

• The Mating Season (1949) – Jeeves novel, with the longest example of Rosie's work, a synopsis of Mervyn Keene, Clubman.

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[edit] Actresses

Film and TV actresses

• Deborah Stanford in the BBC One's black-and-white World of Wooster (1965–1967)^[2]
• Anastasia Hille in the 1990-1993 ITV series Jeeves and Wooster, season 4 episode 3^[3]

Radio actresses

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Audiobook actresses

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[edit] See also

• List of P. G. Wodehouse characters in the Jeeves stories

[edit] References

Sources consulted

• Kuzmenko, Michel (The Russian Wodehouse Society) (2007-03-22 revision). "Wodehouse books". Bibliography. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
• Reggie (2007-03-16 revision). "Wodehouse Who's Who: Rosie M. Banks, Mrs Bingo Little". Blandings, a Companion to the Works of P. G. Wodehouse. Archived from the original on 2007-08-13.

Endnotes

[edit] External links

• Hutchinson, Kyle. "Wodehouse Characters: Rosie M. Banks, Mrs. Bingo Little". The P. G. Wodehouse Story Index [database]. (last updated 2006-05-11)