George Emerson
Second-in-command of the Hong Kong Police force, Emerson has been in love with Aline Peters since he wore knickerbockers, a fact he never fails to point out to her when they meet, even when she is engaged to someone else. In Something Fresh, Emerson is invited down to Blandings by Freddie Threepwood, and uses his time there to press his suit with his host's fiancee.
Wodehouse's choice of the name George Emerson for this character was not accidental. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster was published seven years earlier than Something Fresh in 1908, and was a well known novel then, as it is now. In A Room with a View a character named George Emerson declares his love for Lucy Honeychurch to her even though she, like Aline Peters, is engaged to someone else. The events that follow in the two novels concerning both the George Emersons are closely aligned.
In Something New, the U.S. version of the book, Emerson is an American from Pittsburgh, a rising member of a New York law firm; a fierce patriot, this Emerson loathes all things British and loves all things American.
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