The Wooster Papers

Places

Hyde Park

Also the park, the Serpentine, the Marble Arch end

The park by the Serpentine where Bertie runs into Bingo, and whose Marble Arch end is where the bearded Bingo harangues the crowd.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    The park by the Serpentine where Bertie runs into Bingo, and whose Marble Arch end is where the bearded Bingo harangues the crowd.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Where Gwladys drove Bertie at sixty miles an hour and where he walks off his lunch.

Scenes set here

  1. Bertie meets Bingo in the park wearing a ghastly tie, and Bingo confesses he is in love with a girl called Mabel.Chapter 1, Hyde Park, as the Serpentine
  2. In the park Bertie meets Bingo's uncle, now Lord Bittlesham and owner of Ocean Breeze, and the two are loudly abused by a bearded Red Dawn orator.Chapter 11, Hyde Park, as the Marble Arch end

Talked about, but not there

The Inimitable Jeeves 3 scenes
  1. Over morning tea Jeeves advises against backing Privateer, reveals he has sent back Bertie's mauve shirts, and reports that Bingo Little rang about a matter of importance.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as the park
  2. Bingo reveals he was the bearded orator, explains he is courting the revolutionary Charlotte Rowbotham, and invites himself and her family to tea at Bertie's flat.Chapter 11, the Drones Club, as the park
  3. Bertie meets a terrified Lord Bittlesham with Bingo, who privately admits he wrote the threatening letter himself to get a fifty-pound cheque to put on Ocean Breeze.Chapter 12, St James's Street
Very Good, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he cannot come on her yacht cruise because he loves Gwladys Pendlebury, and she bets him Jeeves will stop the match, get rid of the portrait and have him aboard the yacht.Chapter 6, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as the Park
  2. Jeeves admits disliking the portrait's hungry look and reports that Gwladys ran over Lucius Pim outside, who now lies in Bertie's spare bedroom with a broken leg.Chapter 6, the sitting-room, as the Park