A Room with a View
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.