NMLP P-023527 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

French Leave

P.G. Wodehouse · Herbert Jenkins (UK) · 1956

UK Herbert Jenkins is the true first (20 January 1956), reference McIlvaine A78a. The US Simon & Schuster edition followed on 28 September 1959, with light textual changes; the novel was adapted from Guy Bolton's 1938 stage play Three Blind Mice.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-023527 for "French Leave" by P.G. Wodehouse (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023527, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).