26-482: Uneasy Money may refer to: Uneasy Money (novel) , a 1916 novel by P. G. Wodehouse Uneasy Money (1918 film) , an American silent romantic comedy film, based on the novel Uneasy Money (1926 film) , a German silent film Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Uneasy Money . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-652: A church "on Twenty-ninth Street, just round the corner from Fifth Avenue"; this is a reference to the Little Church Around the Corner , where Wodehouse married his wife Ethel in 1914. The fictional village in the novel, Brookport, was likely inspired by Bellport , a village in Brookhaven, New York, where the Wodehouses lived in the first years of their marriage. The story was published as a serial in
78-702: A fortune from a rich American he once helped in golf. When Bill learns that the rich man left nothing to his niece Elizabeth Boyd, he feels uneasy and decides to give half the money to her, though this turns out to be unexpectedly difficult. Some of the characters and locations in the novel appear in other Wodehouse stories. Marvis Bay features in numerous stories and novels. Publicist Roscoe Sherriff appears in Indiscretions of Archie (1921), and young lawyer Gerald "Jerry" Nichols returns in Bachelors Anonymous (1973). New York restaurant Reigelheimer's
104-409: A letter to Elizabeth offering to split the money, but she sends a reply refusing. Nutty, a friend of Gates, shows up at Gates's apartment and meets Bill. He invites Bill, who only calls himself Bill Chalmers, to join him with friends at Reigelheimer's. At the restaurant, Claire sees Bill, who crashes loudly into a waiter while dancing, but does not approach him because Polly's rich friend Dudley Pickering
130-494: A man. They were removed. The club was originally established at 4 Chesterfield Street , off Curzon Street in Mayfair , in 1693 by an Italian immigrant named Francesco Bianco as a hot chocolate emporium under the name Mrs. White's Chocolate House . Tickets were sold to the productions at King's Theatre and Royal Drury Lane Theatre as a side-business. White's quickly made the transition from teashop to exclusive club and in
156-600: A million pounds from Ira Nutcombe, an American whom Bill once helped at golf. The millionaire left his nephew only twenty pounds, and nothing to his niece, to whom he had left all his money in older wills. Bill feels he should see her and split the money with her. The niece, Elizabeth Boyd, is a hard-working beekeeper in Brookport, Long Island, where she lives with her irresponsible brother "Nutty", Claude Nutcombe Boyd. A letter from Jerry informs them that Nutcombe's money went to someone called Lord Dawlish. In New York, Bill sends
182-564: Is a gentlemen's club in St James's , London . Founded in 1693 as a hot chocolate shop in Mayfair , it is London's oldest club and therefore the oldest private members' club in the world. It moved to its current premises on St James's Street in 1778. White's is the oldest gentlemen's club in London, founded in 1693, and is considered by many to be the most exclusive private club in London. Notable current members include Charles III and
208-419: Is a burglar. Dudley investigates the bee farm carrying a revolver, and accidentally fires his gun and kills the monkey without realizing it. Bill and Elizabeth find the dead monkey, and uncertain of what to do, they carry him away. Dudley follows, thinking they are burglars carrying their loot, and Elizabeth hears him. She gets scared, but Bill comforts her and they confess their feelings for each other. They leave
234-554: Is interested in Claire. Nutty learns Bill is Lord Dawlish, and, hoping to get some money, invites him to the bee farm. Elizabeth is initially annoyed when Nutty brings a stranger home, but she bonds with Bill over beekeeping and golf. Since she is angry at Lord Dawlish, feeling he tried to give her charity, Bill keeps his identity secret. Polly brings Algie, Claire, Dudley, and the monkey to her house in Brookport. Dudley and Claire get engaged. She sees Bill again, and breaks up with him, using
260-943: Is referenced in the short story " The Aunt and the Sluggard " (1916), the village of Brookport appears again in Jill the Reckless (1920), and the character Claire Fenwick travels on the White Star Line steamship Atlantic , which is featured in The Girl on the Boat (1921). William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, or "Bill", makes his living as a London club secretary. His beautiful fiancée, Claire Fenwick, will not marry him unless he makes more money. Bill hopes to make money in America, and his American friend Gates lends Bill
286-636: The Prince of Wales . Former British prime minister David Cameron , whose father Ian Cameron was the club's chairman, was a member for fifteen years but resigned in 2008, over the club's declining to admit women. White's is a member of the Association of London Clubs. In January 2018, calling themselves 'Women in Whites', a group of female protesters infiltrated the club to highlight its single-sex policy, one managing to gain entry by pretending to be
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#1732798387484312-686: The Saturday Evening Post between 4 December 1915 and 15 January 1916, and in the Strand Magazine between December 1916 and June 1917. It was the second novel Wodehouse sold to George Horace Lorimer of the Post , after Something Fresh . Both serials were published in seven parts. The Post serial is nearly identical to the US edition book, and the Strand serial is nearly identical to
338-545: The Tory party, while the Whigs' club Brooks's was just down the road. A few apolitical and affable gentlemen managed to belong to both. The new architecture featured a bow window on the ground floor. In the later 18th century, the table directly in front of it became a seat of distinction, the throne of the most socially influential men in the club. This belonged to the arbiter elegantiarum , Beau Brummell , until he removed to
364-616: The Continent in 1816, when William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley , took the place of honour. While there, he is supposed to have once bet £3,000 on which of two raindrops would reach the bottom of a pane in the bow window. Later, the spot was reserved for the use of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , until his death in 1852. Alvanley's was not the most eccentric bet in White's famous betting book. Some of those entries were on sports, but more often on political developments, especially during
390-501: The UK edition book. Illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood were used for both serials. The US edition is dedicated: "To My Wife, Bless Her". The first US edition featured a frontispiece and seven illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. Underwood drew the colour illustration on the front of the dust jacket, which appeared in black and white facing page 222 of the text (and in the final part of both magazine serials). A new foreword by Wodehouse
416-790: The United States on 17 March 1916 by D. Appleton & Company , New York, and in the United Kingdom on 4 October 1917 by Methuen & Co. , London. The story had earlier been serialised in the U.S in the Saturday Evening Post from December 1915, and in the UK in the Strand Magazine starting December 1916. Taking place primarily in New York City and then-rural Long Island , the story tells of amiable but hard-up "Bill", Lord Dawlish, who inherits
442-628: The chaotic years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars . A good many were social bets, such as whether a friend would marry this year, or to whom. The club continues to maintain its tradition as a club for gentlemen only, although one of its best known chefs from the early 1900s was Rosa Lewis , a model for the central character in the BBC television series The Duchess of Duke Street . There were two American members in
468-521: The dead monkey in Algie's shack, which Dudley enters. He is found there by Polly, Algie, and Claire. They rebuke Dudley for shooting the monkey and Claire ends their engagement. Claire finds out about Bill's inheritance and tries to win him back, but he refuses, being happily engaged to Elizabeth. Claire insists that Elizabeth knows who Bill is and is marrying him for his money, and returns to Dudley. Nutty, mistakenly believing Elizabeth got engaged to Bill for
494-463: The early 18th century, it was notorious as a gambling house; those who frequented it were known as "the gamesters of White's". The club gained a reputation for both its exclusivity and the often raffish behaviour of its members. Jonathan Swift referred to White's as the "bane of half the English nobility." In 1778 it moved to 37–38 St James's Street . From 1783 it was the unofficial headquarters of
520-634: The excuse that she saw Bill dancing with a girl at Reigelheimer's. Dudley, concerned by recent local burglaries, suspects Bill is a thief. At Polly's house, the monkey throws eggs and plates, and bites Dudley, then runs off. Nutty sees the monkey, but Elizabeth, who wants Nutty to stop drinking, pretends not to see it, and Nutty swears off drink. Elizabeth decides to keep the monkey for a day or two in case Nutty changes his mind. Bill discovers that Claire got engaged to Dudley shortly before breaking up with him. Claire denies knowing Bill, making Dudley more certain Bill
546-458: The interwar period, one of whom was a general in the U.S. Army. Postwar American members included diplomat Edward Streator . King Charles III held his stag night at the club before his wedding to Diana Spencer in 1981. His elder son, Prince William , was entered as a member of the club shortly after his birth. The clubhouse is located at 37–38 St James's Street in the City of Westminster and
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#1732798387484572-547: The keys to his New York apartment. Claire gets a letter from her American friend Pauline or "Polly", who married Algie, Lord Wetherby, another impecunious English lord. Polly is earning a large salary in New York dancing at Reigelheimer's Restaurant. She invites Claire to visit, and mentions that she bought a snake named Clarence and a monkey named Eustace for publicity as directed by her press agent, Roscoe Sherriff. Bill learns from his friend, lawyer Jerry Nichols, that he inherited
598-443: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uneasy_Money&oldid=1021468555 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Uneasy Money (novel) Uneasy Money is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse , first published in
624-633: The money, tries to console her. Bill overhears this, and thinks that Claire was right. Elizabeth explains that Nutty told her Bill was Lord Dawlish days ago but she truly loves him. Bill believes her, but Elizabeth, afraid that Bill will come to doubt her feelings for him, tells him to go, and he reluctantly leaves for the city. Jerry Nichols appears, and asks Elizabeth not to tell his father, the head of his legal firm, about how he acted prematurely; Nutcombe actually left his money to Elizabeth in his final will. Nutty celebrates with Jerry while Elizabeth rushes off and catches Bill's train. They plan to get married when
650-478: The train reaches New York and later run a big bee farm together. The exclusive club that Bill works for as secretary in the beginning of the novel, Brown's, was based on a real London club, White's . Brown's is stated in the first chapter of Uneasy Money to be located in St James Street; White's is in fact located in St James's Street . In the last chapter, Elizabeth and Bill decide to get married in
676-414: Was printed in the 1976 UK edition. A volume containing both Uneasy Money and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen was published by Heron Books in London in the 1970s. The book, designed by William B. Taylor, was one of a set of eighteen volumes published by Heron Books, each containing two Wodehouse books. A silent film adaptation, also titled Uneasy Money , was released in 1918. White%27s White's
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