Actually she was an intrepid single mum, fizzing with energy, an ideal complement and manager for life. They married within weeks of meeting in 1914. Get married at once, he advised a lovelorn friend, it is the greatest institution that ever was.
With Ethel, known as Bunny, came her daughter Leonora, then 11, to be known as Snorky. Wodehouse adopted her as his own and his letters to her as she passed through school and beyond are the most intimate and unbuttoned in the book.
He writes to my darling angel Snorkles as if they were school chums - giving her the lowdown on Prohibition, Ziegfeld, the impresario of the Follies, Hollywood (this is a loathsome place) and ending cheerio old lad/old egg/old cake/old scream...
He depended on Ethel but his stifled romantic longings fancied on Leonora...
i expect he's be amused to see a search engine called `ask jeeves`.