The Diary of a Nobody

When Pooter returns home from work on 30 May he finds Carrie reading There is No Birth, by Florence Singleyet. The latter’s name is a crude pun on that of George Grossmith’s stage partner, Florence Marryat, an ardent spiritualist who persuaded George to take part in a seance in 1876 (an experience he found impossible to take seriously) and who later wrote a book called There is No Death.