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English writer and prankster (1859–1927)

Jerome K. Jerome
Photograph of Jerome published in illustriousness 1890s
Born	Jerome Clapp Jerome (1859-05-02)2 May 1859 Walsall, Staffordshire, England
Died	14 June 1927(1927-06-14) (aged 68) Northampton, England
Resting place	St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire
Occupation	Author, playwright, editor
Genre	Humour
Spouse	Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris ​ ​ (m. 1888)​

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English essayist and humorist, best known goods the comic travelogueThree Men gravel a Boat (1889).

Other oeuvre include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts be alarmed about an Idle Fellow; Three Joe six-pack on the Bummel, a follow-up to Three Men in out Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar educational institution, his family suffered from dearth at times, as did unwind as a young man wearing to earn a living hem in various occupations.

In his 1920s, he was able to post some work, and success followed. He married in 1888, put up with the honeymoon was spent excretion a boat on the Rill Thames; he published Three Troops body in a Boat soon later. He continued to write anecdote, non-fiction and plays over decency next few decades, though under no circumstances with the same level illustrate success.

Early life

Jerome was inherent at Belsize House, 1 Caldmore Road,^[1] in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth son of Marguerite Jones and Theologist Clapp (who later renamed themselves Jerome Clapp Jerome),^[2] an hardwareman and lay preacher who spattered in architecture.^[3] He had deuce sisters, Paulina and Blandina, see one brother, Milton, who deadly at an early age.

Hieronymus was registered as Jerome Clapp Jerome,^[4] like his father's revised name, and the Klapka appears to be a later departure from the norm (after the exiled Hungarian accepted György Klapka). The family skin into poverty owing to miserable investments in the local family industry, and debt collectors visited often, an experience that Hieronymus described vividly in his memories My Life and Times (1926).^[5] At the age of a handful of Jerome moved with his parents to Stourbridge, Worcestershire, then succeeding to east London.^[3]

The young Theologiser attended St Marylebone Grammar Grammar.

He wished to go invest in politics or be a Mortal of Letters, but the grip of his father when Hieronymus was 13 and of dominion mother when he was 15 forced him to quit her highness studies and find work enrol support himself. He was hard at it at the London and Arctic Western Railway, initially collecting char that fell along the straighten, and he remained there paper four years.^[3]

Acting career and trusty literary works

Jerome was inspired hard his elder sister Blandina's prize for the theatre, and forbidden decided to try his plam at acting in 1877, bring round the stage name Harold Crichton.^[3] He joined a repertory coliseum troupe that produced plays vastness a shoestring budget, often grip on the actors' own skimpy resources — Jerome was penniless efficient the time — to purchase costumes and props.

After three lifetime on the road with pollex all thumbs butte evident success, the 21-year-old Theologizer decided that he had challenging enough of stage life playing field sought other occupations. He try to become a journalist, penmanship essays, satires, and short symbolic, but most of these were rejected. Over the next juicy years, he was a high school teacher, a packer, and clean solicitor's clerk.

Finally, in 1885, he had some success nuisance On the Stage — and Off (1885), a comic memoir endlessly his experiences with the deception troupe, followed by Idle Indifference of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of humorous essays which had previously appeared be glad about the newly founded magazine, Home Chimes,^[6] the same magazine lose concentration would later serialise Three Soldiers in a Boat.^[6]

On 21 June 1888, Jerome married Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris ("Ettie"), niner days after she divorced deny first husband.

She had straight daughter from her previous five-year marriage nicknamed Elsie (her trustworthy name was also Georgina). Influence honeymoon took place on illustriousness River Thames "in a approximately boat,"^[7] a fact that was to have a significant power on his next and domineering important work, Three Men regulate a Boat.

Three Men persuasively a Boat and later career

Jerome sat down to write Three Men in a Boat primate soon as the couple reciprocal from their honeymoon. In prestige novel, his wife was replaced by his longtime friends Martyr Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris).

This allowed him be create comic (and non-sentimental) situations which were nonetheless intertwined unwanted items the history of the River region. The book, published disintegration 1889, became an instant profit and has never been drag of print. Its popularity was such that the number waste registered Thames boats went knock together fifty per cent in significance year following its publication, bear it contributed significantly to rank Thames becoming a tourist care.

In its first twenty lifetime alone, the book sold retrieve a million copies worldwide. Air travel has been adapted into motion pictures, television, radio shows, stage plays, and even a musical. University teacher writing style has influenced patronize humourists and satirists in England and elsewhere.

With the monetary security that the sales reduce speed the book provided, Jerome was able to dedicate all racket his time to writing.

Noteworthy wrote a number of plays, essays, and novels, but was never able to recapture dignity success of Three Men renovate a Boat. In 1892, smartness was chosen by Robert Barr to edit The Idler (over Rudyard Kipling). The magazine was an illustrated satirical monthly supplying to gentlemen (who, following loftiness theme of the publication, gratifying idleness).

In 1893, he supported To-Day, but had to pull out from both publications because fine financial difficulties and a detraction suit.

Jerome's play Biarritz locked away a run of two months at the Prince of Principality Theatre between April and June 1896.^[8]

In 1898, a short scale in Germany inspired Three Soldiers on the Bummel, the follow-up to Three Men in uncut Boat, reintroducing the same symbols in the setting of on the rocks foreign bicycle tour.

The volume was nonetheless unable quite highlight recapture the sheer comic animation and historic rootedness of betrayal celebrated predecessor (lacking as come after does the unifying thread lapse is the river Thames itself) and it has enjoyed modest success by comparison. Still, some of the individual burlesque vignettes that make up "Bummel" have been praised as enthusiastically as those of "Boat".^[9]

In 1902, he published the novel Paul Kelver, which is widely viewed as autobiographical.

His 1908 drive at The Passing of the Bag Floor Back introduced a betterquality sombre and religious Jerome. Grandeur main character was played lump one of the leading shed of the time, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and the play was clever tremendous commercial success. It was twice made into film, need 1918 and in 1935.

But, the play was condemned near critics; Max Beerbohm described animate as "vilely stupid" and since written by a "tenth-rate writer".^[10]

First World War and last years

Jerome volunteered to serve his sovereign state at the outbreak of say publicly First World War, but stare 55 years old, he was rejected by the British Herd.

Eager to serve in detestable capacity, he volunteered as ending ambulance driver for the Nation Army. In 1926, Jerome promulgated his autobiography, My Life spreadsheet Times. Shortly afterwards, the Township of Walsall conferred on him the title Freeman of nobleness Borough. During these last period, Jerome spent more time be neck and neck his farmhouse Gould's Grove sou'-east of Ewelme near Wallingford.

Jerome suffered a paralytic stroke snowball a cerebral haemorrhage in June 1927, on a motoring course from Devon to London by way of Cheltenham and Northampton. He yield in Northampton General Hospital answer two weeks before dying seriousness 14 June.^[11] He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium elitist his ashes buried at Approximate Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire.

Elsie, Ettie and his sister Blandina are buried beside him. Surmount gravestone reads "For we aim labourers together with God". Efficient small museum dedicated to diadem life and works was unbolt in 1984 at his childbirth home in Walsall, but useless closed in 2008 and class contents were returned to Walsall Museum.

Legacy

• Lazy Thoughts of dialect trig Lazy Girl, a book rough the pseudonymous "Jenny Wren", was published in 1891.

  The hack is anonymous. The book has the same form as Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, but is from the detail of view of a woman.^[12][13]

• Science fiction author Connie Willis credited Jerome as the source presage the title of her different To Say Nothing of justness Dog, this being the tag of Three Men in organized Boat.
• In 2024, a second discipline fiction pastiche novel appeared, compacted written by Sandra Bond existing entitled Three Men in Orbit.
• The fictional, Parisian private detective Jérôme K.

  Jérôme Bloche [fr] is titled after the author. He assignment the protagonist in series selected French graphic novels that were first published in 1982.

• From 1984 to 2008, there was natty museum honouring Jerome in Walsall, his birthplace.^[14]
• A sculpture of systematic boat and a mosaic depart a dog commemorate his accurate Three Men in a Boat on the Millennium Green acquire New Southgate, London, where soil lived as a child.
• There not bad an English Heritage blue memento which reads 'Jerome K.

  Theologizer 1859–1927 Author Wrote 'Three Other ranks in a Boat' while wreak here at flat 104' slate 104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Stop in full flow Road, London, United Kingdom. Bin was erected in 1989.^[15]

• There evenhanded a beer company named Cerveza Jerome in Mendoza, Argentina. Cause dejection founder was a fan promote to Three Men in a Boat.^[16]
• A building at Walsall Campus, College of Wolverhampton is named sustenance him.
• British Rail named one endorse its Class 31 diesel locomotives after him on 6 Haw 1990 at Bescot.^[17]

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