Love Among the Chickens

Love Among the Chickens
P.G. Wodehouse
New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909
P.G. Wodehouse Collection
Gift of Arthur Robinson
Special Collections and University Archives

Love among the Chickens was first published in the U.K. in 1906 and in the U.S. in 1909.  In 1921, P.G. Wodehouse published a thorough revision of the novel which switched the narrative voice to first person and provided a slightly different ending than the original.  It is the only novel to include Stanley Featherstonhaugh Ukridge, although the character does appear later in short stories over the course of the author’s career.  Ukridge, an inept opportunist, is generally credited as being Wodehouse’s first original comical protagonist.