The Bloodhound, the Chef, and the Suffragette is an unpublished comic play[1] written by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Incledon relatives during his vacation at Barnt Green in Worcestershire[2] on Christmas in 1912. In the performance of the play as the seasonal theatrical,[3] Tolkien played "Professor Joseph Quilter",[4] the lead role. The ties between the plot of the play and "Tolkien's own circumstances" regarding Edith Bratt are obvious.[5]
- "'Professor Joseph Quilter, M.A., B.A., A.B.C., alias world-wide detective Sexton Q. Blake-Holmes, the Bloodhound', who is searching for a lost heiress named Gwendoline Goodchild. She meanwhile has fallen in love with a penniless student whom she meets while they are living in the same lodging-house, and she has to remain undiscovered by her father until her twenty-first birthday in two days' time, after which she will be free to marry."
- —Short summary by Humphrey Carpenter[4]
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- ↑ "Timeline (1892-1949) entry 1912" on tolkienestate.com
- ↑ The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: "Reader's Guide", pg. 75 (entry "Barnt Green (Worcestershire)")
- ↑ The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: "Reader's Guide", pg. 226-7 (entry "Drama - Tolkien as Performer")
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, pg. 59
- ↑ The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: "Chronology", pg. 35 (entry "Christmas 1912")