Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)
Author of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
About the Author
Jerome K. Jerome was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, England on May 2, 1859. He grew up in London and had to leave school at the age of 14 because of his parents' death. Afterwards, he worked as a clerk, an actor, a journalist, and a school teacher. In 1885, he published his first book On the Stage show more - and Off: The Brief Career of a Would-Be Actor. This was followed by numerous plays, books, and magazine articles including Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men in a Boat, and Three Men on the Bummel. He founded the weekly magazine To-Day in 1893 and edited it and a monthly magazine called The Idler until 1898. He also worked as a lecturer. During World War I, he enlisted in the French army as an ambulance driver because he was rejected for active service in his own country. He published his autobiography My Life and Times in 1926. He suffered a paralytic stroke and a cerebral hemorrhage and died on June 14, 1927. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Jerome K. Jerome
Reading & Training : Jerome K. Jerome : Three men in a boat [book + sound recording] (2002) — Writer — 12 copies
Three Men in a Boat - Complete with all the Illustrations from the Original 1889 Edition (Illustrated) (Reader's… (2022) 4 copies
Anthony John 4 copies
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) (Longmans' Simplified English Series) (1948) 3 copies
Barbara: A Play in One Act 3 copies
Robina in Search of a Husband 3 copies
Pagine umoristiche 2 copies
Трое в одной лодке / Рассказы 2 copies
A Ghost Story 1 copy
Čas mého života 1 copy
Three Men in a Boat 1964 1 copy
Latin Bible: Nova Vulgata 1 copy
SOS Title Unknown 1 copy
Ghost Stories 1 copy
Tři muži na toulkách 1 copy
The Idler Magazine 1892-3 1 copy
A Pathetic Story 1 copy
Trois hommes dans un bateau 1 copy
SOS Title Unknown 1 copy
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (1889) by: Jerome K. Jerome (Comedy NOVEL ) (2017) 1 copy
Three Men in a Boat | Three Men on the Bummel | Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome (2013) 1 copy
The Snake 1 copy
The Skeleton 1 copy
Sunset 1 copy
Idle Thoughts on Ireland — Author — 1 copy
Jerome K. Jerome Collection, Vol 1: Three Men in a Boat, Three Men on the Bummel, Tea-Table Talk (2018) 1 copy
Should Women be Beautiful? 1 copy
Storia di un romanzo 1 copy
La sua serata libera 1 copy
The Woman of the Sæter 1 copy
Three Men in a Boat 1 copy
On Being Idle 1 copy
Jerome K. Jerome Collection: Three Men In A Boat, Three Men In The Bummel, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (2020) 1 copy
Roman-Studien 1 copy
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV (1957) — Contributor — 163 copies
Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction (2016) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Second Christmas Megapack: 29 Modern and Classic Christmas Stories (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
Ghost Stories — Contributor — 1 copy
Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Jerome, Jerome K.
- Legal name
- Jerome, Jerome Clapp (birth)
- Other names
- Jerome, Jerome Klapka
- Birthdate
- 1859-05-02
- Date of death
- 1927-06-14
- Burial location
- St Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England, UK (ashes)
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Caldmore, Walsall, England, UK
- Place of death
- Northampton, East Midlands, England, UK
- Cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK
Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK (Poplar ∙ East End)
Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England - Education
- Philological School in Lisson Grove
- Occupations
- novelist
humorist
playwright
actor
teacher
railway worker (show all 9)
clerk
journalist
ambulance driver (WWI) - Relationships
- Barr, Robert (co-editor of The Idler)
- Organizations
- London and North Western Railway
- Short biography
- Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several other novels.
Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled in architecture. He had two sisters, Paulina and Blandina, and one brother, Milton, who died at an early age. Jerome was registered as Jerome Clapp Jerome, like his father's amended name, and the Klapka appears to be a later variation (after the exiled Hungarian general György Klapka). The family fell into poverty owing to bad investments in the local mining industry, and debt collectors visited often, an experience that Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times (1926).[3]
The young Jerome attended St Marylebone Grammar School. He wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of his father when Jerome was 13 and of his mother when he was 15 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 he remained there for four years.
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