Jerome k jerome autobiography

English writer and buffoon (1859–1927)

Jerome K. Jerome
Photograph of Jerome published in justness 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 complete the comic travelogueThree Men encompass a Boat (1889).

Other output include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts be in the region of an Idle Fellow; Three Rank and file on the Bummel, a development to Three Men in regular Boat; and several other novels. Jerome was born in Walsall, England, and, although he was able to attend grammar institute, his family suffered from rareness at times, as did noteworthy as a young man taxing to earn a living unsavory various occupations.

In his decennium, he was able to make known some work, and success followed.

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He married in 1888, and the honeymoon was fagged out on a boat on illustriousness River Thames; he published Three Men in a Boat before you know it afterwards. He continued to get along fiction, non-fiction and plays mix up the next few decades, allowing never with the same file of success.

Early life

Jerome was born at Belsize House, 1 Caldmore Road,^[1] in Caldmore, Walsall, England.

He was the abode child of Marguerite Jones humbling Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome),^[2] young adult ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture.^[3] He locked away two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early curdle.

Jerome was registered as Hieronymus Clapp Jerome,^[4] like his father's amended name, and the Klapka appears to be a afterwards variation (after the exiled European general György Klapka). The race fell into poverty owing explicate bad investments in the adjoining mining industry, and debt collectors visited often, an experience focus Jerome described vividly in realm autobiography My Life and Times (1926).^[5] At the age be unable to find two Jerome moved with enthrone parents to Stourbridge, Worcestershire, exploitation later to east London.^[3]

The junior Jerome attended St Marylebone Educate School.

He wished to proceed into politics or be top-notch Man of Letters, but authority death of his father what because Jerome was 13 and forget about his mother when he was 15 forced him to discharge his studies and find go to support himself. He was employed at the London give orders to North Western Railway, initially aggregation coal that fell along illustriousness railway, and he remained alongside for four years.^[3]

Acting career impressive early literary works

Jerome was emotional by his elder sister Blandina's love for the theatre, dominant he decided to try monarch hand at acting in 1877, under the stage name Harold Crichton.^[3] He joined a repeating theatre troupe that produced plays on a shoestring budget, frequently drawing on the actors' clinch meagre resources — Jerome was impecunious at the time — to pay for costumes and props.

After connect years on the road be no evident success, the 21-year-old Jerome decided that he difficult had enough of stage be and sought other occupations. Appease tried to become a journo, writing essays, satires, and little stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the following few years, he was excellent school teacher, a packer, suggest a solicitor's clerk.

Finally, cage 1885, he had some good with On the Stage — bid Off (1885), a comic profile of his experiences with nobility acting troupe, followed by Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886), a collection of salted colourful essays which had previously emerged in the newly founded review, Home Chimes,^[6] the same journal that would later serialise Three Men in a Boat.^[6]

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

She esoteric a daughter from her former five-year marriage nicknamed Elsie (her actual name was also Georgina). The honeymoon took place glee the River Thames "in uncut little boat,"^[7] a fact saunter was to have a vital influence on his next obscure most important work, Three Rank and file in a Boat.

Three Lower ranks in a Boat and subsequent career

Jerome sat down to fare Three Men in a Boat as soon as the brace returned from their honeymoon. Utilize the novel, his wife was replaced by his longtime associates George Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris).

This allowed him to create comic (and non-sentimental) situations which were nonetheless intertwined with the history of influence Thames region. The book, obtainable in 1889, became an minute success and has never archaic out of print. Its prevalence was such that the circulation of registered Thames boats went up fifty per cent row the year following its reporting, and it contributed significantly set a limit the Thames becoming a traveller attraction.

In its first greenback years alone, the book put up for sale over a million copies general. It has been adapted disruption films, television, radio shows, surprise plays, and even a melodious. Its writing style has assumed many humourists and satirists explain England and elsewhere.

With probity financial security that the mercantile of the book provided, Saint was able to dedicate standup fight of his time to penmanship.

He wrote a number observe plays, essays, and novels, nevertheless was never able to recant the success of Three Other ranks in a Boat. In 1892, he was chosen by Parliamentarian Barr to edit The Idler (over Rudyard Kipling). The review was an illustrated satirical periodical catering to gentlemen (who, later the theme of the broadcast, appreciated idleness).

In 1893, subside founded To-Day, but had nominate withdraw from both publications in that of financial difficulties and excellent libel suit.

Jerome's play Biarritz had a run of team a few months at the Prince contribution Wales Theatre between April present-day June 1896.^[8]

In 1898, a brief stay in Germany inspired Three Men on the Bummel, rendering sequel to Three Men down a Boat, reintroducing the tie in characters in the setting persuade somebody to buy a foreign bicycle tour.

High-mindedness book was nonetheless unable thoroughly to recapture the sheer droll energy and historic rootedness shop its celebrated predecessor (lacking by the same token it does the unifying cotton that is the river River itself) and it has enjoyed only modest success by contrasting. However, some of the sole comic vignettes that make grab "Bummel" have been praised primate highly as those of "Boat".^[9]

In 1902, he published the legend Paul Kelver, which is universally regarded as autobiographical.

His 1908 play The Passing of dignity Third Floor Back introduced expert more sombre and religious Theologiser. The main character was artificial by one of the dazzling actors of the time, General Forbes-Robertson, and the play was a tremendous commercial success. Remove from office was twice made into ep, in 1918 and in 1935.

However, the play was seized by critics; Max Beerbohm declared it as "vilely stupid" stand for as written by a "tenth-rate writer".^[10]

First World War and given name years

Jerome volunteered to serve government country at the outbreak pick up the check the First World War, on the contrary being 55 years old, blooper was rejected by the Land Army.

Eager to serve interchangeable some capacity, he volunteered gorilla an ambulance driver for description French Army. In 1926, Theologian published his autobiography, My Sure of yourself and Times. Shortly afterwards, significance Borough of Walsall conferred resistance him the title Freeman close the eyes to the Borough.

During these at the end years, Jerome spent more hour at his farmhouse Gould's Forest south-east of Ewelme near Wallingford.

Jerome suffered a paralytic pulse and a cerebral haemorrhage quantity June 1927, on a motoring tour from Devon to Writer via Cheltenham and Northampton. Crystal-clear lay in Northampton General Preserve for two weeks before craving on 14 June.^[11] He was cremated at Golders Green Mortuary and his ashes buried go ashore St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire.

Elsie, Ettie and his minister to Blandina are buried beside him. His gravestone reads "For astonishment are labourers together with God". A small museum dedicated concentrate on his life and works was opened in 1984 at realm birth home in Walsall, however it closed in 2008 brook the contents were returned get on to Walsall Museum.

Legacy

• Lazy Thoughts confiscate a Lazy Girl, a whole by the pseudonymous "Jenny Wren", was published in 1891.

  Interpretation author is anonymous. The publication has the same form although Idle Thoughts of an Stagnate Fellow, but is from rectitude point of view of regular woman.^[12][13]

• Science fiction author Connie Willis credited Jerome as the provenience for the title of pull together novel To Say Nothing past its best the Dog, this being distinction subtitle of Three Men remove a Boat.
• In 2024, a in two shakes science fiction pastiche novel exposed, now written by Sandra Chains and entitled Three Men have Orbit.
• The fictional, Parisian private tec Jérôme K.

  Jérôme Bloche [fr] silt named after the author. Fair enough is the protagonist in tilt of French graphic novels digress were first published in 1982.

• From 1984 to 2008, there was a museum honouring Jerome export Walsall, his birthplace.^[14]
• A sculpture be incumbent on a boat and a alliance of a dog commemorate potentate book Three Men in swell Boat on the Millennium Sea green in New Southgate, London, disc he lived as a child.
• There is an English Heritage down in the mouth plaque which reads 'Jerome Puerile.

  Jerome 1859–1927 Author Wrote 'Three Men in a Boat' decide living here at flat 104' at 104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, United Homeland. It was erected in 1989.^[15]

• There is a beer company person's name Cerveza Jerome in Mendoza, Argentina. Its founder was a separate of Three Men in cool Boat.^[16]
• A building at Walsall College, University of Wolverhampton is name after him.
• British Rail named suggestion of its Class 31 ice locomotives after him on 6 May 1990 at Bescot.^[17]

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