Totleigh Towers
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Totleigh Towers is a recurring fictional location in the work of English humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a country house and the home of widower Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ward Stephanie Byng, and his daughter Madeline Bassett. Totleigh Towers provides the primary setting for several of the most well-known tales in the Jeeves and Wooster canon.
[edit] Overview
In Wodehouse's fictional world, Totleigh Towers is situated close to the village of Totleigh-in-the-Wold, of which Sir Watkyn Bassett is the squire. Bertie's college friend, Harold 'Stinker' Pinker, is the curate of the village.
In the ITV series Jeeves and Wooster starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, Totleigh Towers was filmed at Highclere Castle.
[edit] 'Totleigh Towers saga'
Four novels, published between 1938 and 1971, tell the story of Wooster's on-off engagement to Madeline Bassett and are together known as the 'Totleigh Towers saga,' though two of the four don't actually take place there. The four novels are, in order:
- The Code of the Woosters (1938)
- The Mating Season (1949)
- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (1963)
- Much Obliged, Jeeves (1971)
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