Charlotte Corday, a communist?

[Juan Vazquez]

In The Inimitable Jeeves, Comrade Bingo chapter, Charlotte Corday Rowbotham is the communist fiancée of Bingo Little.

I find this inconsistent with the fact that the real Charlotte Corday of the French Revolution was a Girondins´ sympathizer.

The Girondins were not communists and were sort of centrist moderates, according to what I have read on the matter.

Was Plum Wodehouse confused about this?

Did he think that all French revolutionaries were communists?

At that time the concept of Communism was a vague idea and the Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.

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Post by Juan Vazquez
In The Inimitable Jeeves, Comrade Bingo chapter, Charlotte Corday Rowbotham is the communist fiancée of Bingo Little.
I find this inconsistent with the fact that the real Charlotte Corday of the French Revolution was a Girondins´ sympathizer.
The Girondins were not communists and were sort of centrist moderates, according to what I have read on the matter.
Was Plum Wodehouse confused about this?
Did he think that all French revolutionaries were communists?
At that time the concept of Communism was a vague idea and the Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.

Charlotte Corday Rowbotham was not the real Charlotte Corday of the French Revolution; she was named after that one.

Stalin, the Chief Minister of India's Tamilnadu province, is named after Yosif Stalin, but is not Communist.

[Alan Follett]

Post by Juan Vazquez
In The Inimitable Jeeves, Comrade Bingo chapter, Charlotte Corday Rowbotham is the communist fiancée of Bingo Little.
I find this inconsistent with the fact that the real Charlotte Corday of the French Revolution was a Girondins´ sympathizer.
The Girondins were not communists and were sort of centrist moderates, according to what I have read on the matter.
Was Plum Wodehouse confused about this?
Did he think that all French revolutionaries were communists?
At that time the concept of Communism was a vague idea and the Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.

Yes, I fear Wodehouse may have been a bit hazy on this aspect of French history. Pop Rowbotham would have been unlikely to have bestowed this name on his daughter; surely he would have more sympathetic to the radical Jacobin Jean-Paul Marat than to his assassin, Charlotte Corday.