Jerome Klapka Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome
Born:	May 2, 1859(1859-05-02) Staffordshire, England
Died:	June 14, 1927 (aged 68) Northampton, England
Occupation:	Author
Nationality:	British
Genres:	Humour

Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859 – June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Jerome K. Jerome photo This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... Northampton is a large market town and a local government district in central England on the River Nene, and the county town of Northamptonshire, in the English East Midlands region. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year (166th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. ...

He was born at 1 Caldmore Road, on the corner of Bradford Street in Walsall, at that time part of the county of Staffordshire, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London. , Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. ... Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. ... Three Men on the Bummel is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. ...

Early life

Jerome was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), a lay preacher who dabbled in architecture, and Marguerite Jones. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered, like his father's amended name, as Jerome Clapp Jerome, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). Due to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times. Preacher is a term the for someone who preaches sermons or gives homilies. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ...

The young Jerome wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of both his parents in 1872, when he was 13 years old, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and remained there for four years. The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was formed in 1846 by the merger of three railway companies - the Grand Junction Railway, London and Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham. ...

Acting career and early literary works

In 1877, inspired by his older sister Blandina’s love for the theatre, Jerome had decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe who tried to produce plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the meager resources of the actors themselves to purchase costumes and props. Jerome had later comically reflected on this period in On the Stage—and Off, where it is apparent that he was penniless at the time. After three years on the road and with no evident success, a 21 year old Jerome decided he had had enough with stage life, and sought other occupations. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years he was a school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor’s clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage—and Off, a humorous book which publication had opened the door for more plays and essays. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, a collection of humorous essays, followed in 1886. On June 21, 1888, Jerome married Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris (a.k.a. Ettie), nine days after she had divorced her first husband. She had a daughter from a previous, five-year marriage, nicknamed Elsie (her actual name was also Georgina). The honeymoon took place on the Thames, a fact which was to have a significant influence on his next, and most important work, Three Men in a Boat. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... See also: 1884 in literature, other events of 1885, 1886 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. ... See also: 1885 in literature, other events of 1886, 1887 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This article is about the River Thames in southern England. ...

Three Men in a Boat and later career

Jerome sat down to write Three Men in a Boat as soon as the couple returned from their honeymoon. In the novel, his wife was replaced by his longtime friends George Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris). This had allowed him to create comic (and non-sentimental) situations which were nonetheless intertwined with the history of the Thames region. The book, published in 1889, became an instant success and has remained in print until the present. Its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication, and it contributed significantly to the Thames becoming a tourist attraction. In its first twenty years alone, the book sold over a million copies worldwide. It has been adapted to movies, TV and radio shows, stage plays, and even a musical. Its writing style influenced many humorists and satirists in England and elsewhere. Its endurance can probably be attributed to the style and choice of a relatively unchanged location, which prevents the work from appearing dated. Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. ... See also: 1888 in literature, other events of 1889, 1890 in literature, list of years in literature. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ...

With the financial security the sales of the book provided, Jerome was able to dedicate all of his time to writing. He wrote a number of plays, essays and novels, but was never again able to recapture the success of Three Men in a Boat. In 1892 he was chosen by Robert Barr to edit The Idler (over Rudyard Kipling). The magazine was an illustrated satirical monthly catering to gentlemen (who, following the theme of the publication, appreciated idleness). In 1893 he founded To-Day, but had to withdraw from both publications because of financial difficulties and a libel suit. People named Robert Barr include: Robert L. Barr aka Bob Barr Robert M. Barr Robert Barr, writer. ... The Idler is a bi-yearly British magazine devoted to promoting its ethos of idle living and all that entails. ... This article is about the British author. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

In 1898, a short stay in Germany inspired Three Men on the Bummel, the sequel to Three Men in a Boat. While reintroducing the same characters in the setting of a foreign bicycle tour, the book was nonetheless unable to capture the life-force and historic roots of its predecessor, and it enjoyed only a mild success. In 1902 he published the novel Paul Kelver, which is widely regarded as autobiographical. His 1908 play Passing of the Third Floor Back introduced a more sombre Jerome, which the public was reluctant to accept. Three Men on the Bummel is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. ...

World War I and last years

Jerome volunteered to serve his country at the outbreak of the war but, being 56 years old, was rejected by the British Army. Eager to serve in some capacity, he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the French Army. The war experience was said to have dampened his spirit, as no doubt did the death in 1921 of his stepdaughter, Elsie. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The French Army, officially the Armée de Terre (Army of the land), is the land-based component of the French Armed Forces and the largest. ...

In 1926, Jerome published his autobiography, My Life and Times. Shortly afterwards, the Borough of Walsall conferred on him the title Freeman of the Borough. In June 1927, on a motoring tour from Devon to London via Cheltenham and Northampton, Jerome suffered a paralytic stroke and a cerebral hemorrhage. He lay in Northampton General Hospital for two weeks before succumbing on June 14.^[1] He was cremated at Golders Green and his ashes buried at St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire. Elsie, Ettie, and his sister Blandina are buried beside him. A museum dedicated to his life and works now exists at his birth home in Walsall. Stroke (or cerebrovascular accident or CVA) is the clinical designation for a rapidly developing loss of brain function due to an interruption in the blood supply to all or part of the brain. ... A cerebral hemorrhage is a bleed into the substance of the cerebrum. ... Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in the South East of England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...

Notes

• There is a French graphic novel series named Jerome K. Jerome Bloche after the author.

• Jerome's middle name was allegedly in honour of a family friend, an exiled Hungarian general named George Klapka, who was a guest at their home at the time of Jerome's birth. However, the K was not adopted formally by Jerome until after 1871, when his middle initial is given as 'C' on the census.

• George Wingrave is described in Three Men in A Boat as a bank clerk. Later in his career he became a senior manager in Barclays Bank.

• The route down the Thames of Three Men in a Boat was reproduced in a 2005 BBC documentary by comedians Dara O'Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones.

• Jerome was good friends with J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, and Israel Zangwill.

• Three Men in a Boat is well-known in India, Russia and Pakistan, because the book or excerpts from it had been required reading in public schools.

• Connie Willis's time-travel novel To Say Nothing of the Dog has the characters of Three Men in a Boat make a brief appearance while they were on their Thames trip. The reference is to the full title of the original book; "Three Men in a Boat - To Say Nothing of the Dog".

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Bibliography

Novels

• Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
• Three Men in a Boat (1889)
• The Diary of a Pilgrimage (1891)
• Novel Notes (1893)
• Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898)
• Three Men on the Bummel (aka Three Men on Wheels) (1900)
• Paul Kelver, a novel (1902)
• Tommy and Co (1904)
• They and I (1909)
• All Roads Lead to Calvary (1919)
• Anthony John (1923)
• The Love of Ulrich Nebendahl (1909)
• The Philosopher's Joke (1909)

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Collections

• Told After Supper (1891)
• John Ingerfield: And Other Stories (1894)
• Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green (1895)
• The Observations of Henry (1901)
• The Angel and the Author and Others (1904)
• American Wives and Others (1904)
• The Passing of the Third Floor Back: And Other Stories (1907)
• Malvina of Brittany (1916)
• Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)
• After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales (1985)

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Autobiography

• My Life and Times (1926)

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Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K. Jerome

• Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
• A Century of Humour (1934)
• The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
• Famous Monster Tales (1967)
• The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
• The Rivals of Frankenstein (1975)
• The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981)
• Stories in the Dark (1984)
• Gaslit Nightmares (1988)
• Horror Stories (1988)
• 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
• Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
• 100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)

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Short stories

• The Haunted Mill (1891)
• The New Utopia (1891)
• The Dancing Partner (1893)
• Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber
• Silhouettes
• The Skeleton
• The Snake
• The Woman of the Saeter

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