Sophie Ratcliffe, this meant that "Wodehouse's 1914 satire on the fashion of eugenic family planning (The White Hope) was oddly prescient. Family, for Wodehouse, was forged through love, not genetics. Leonora – or "Snorky" – as she soon became, was far more precious to Wodehouse than any of his biological relations." Publication history Wodehouse stated in a letter in 1964 that he got the plot of the story from Munsey's Magazine editor Bob Davis. As Wodehouse wrote in the letter concerning the story: "It was written in 1910 in the days when Bob Davis edited the Munsey pulps and we young authors used to go to him for plots. He would take a turn around the room and come up with a complete plot for a serial, usually horrible but of course saleable to Munsey's! He gave me the plot of this one and I wrote it, but I have never thought highly of it". The story was first published in May 1914 in one issue of Munsey's Magazine under the title The White Hope, with illustrations by E. M. Ashe. It was one of two Wodehouse stories published in Munsey's Magazine, the other being The Little Nugget, which was published in the magazine in 1913. Adaptations A silent film version titled Their Mutual Child was released in 1920. References Notes Bibliography External links The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters Free eBook of The Coming of Bill at Project Gutenberg The 1920 movie at the IMDB Novels by P. G. Wodehouse 1919 British novels English novels Works originally published in Munsey's Magazine Boni & Liveright books American novels adapted into films British novels adapted into films