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The Phoenix Rises. Jerome’s birthplace is Belsize House, a Grade II Listed building at Bradford Street, Walsall. Having fallen into disrepair, it was acquired and restored in the early 1980s by the Society’s late and much-missed Chairman Gordon Foster, MBE. The upper floors were converted into office accommodation, while the two ground ...
Jerome The Man. Jerome Klapka Jerome, best known as the author of Three Men in a Boat, one of the great comic masterpieces of the English language, was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, on 2nd May 1859, the youngest of four children. Jerome left school at fourteen and worked variously as a clerk, a hack journalist, an actor (‘I have played ...
The original ‘Three Men’ – from left to right Carl Hentschel (Harris), George Wingrave (George) and Jerome K. Jerome (J). Jerome was acting as a clerk to a firm of solicitors and lodging just off London’s Tottenham Court Road when Wingrave entered his life. George was a bank clerk (who ‘goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each ...
Jerome In Pictures; Photo gallery; Jerome In Words. Three Men – The Facts; Jerome The Man; Playwriting – A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors; Jerome k Jerome was here; Samson Fox; The Wit and Wisdom of Jerome; Parson Clapp of Appledore; Jerome was here; Bibliography. Books. 01. On the Stage – and Off: the Brief Career of a Would-be ...
Bibliography. This is the first detailed bibliography of Jerome’s work in the English language. It takes the record up to the year 2000, after which the spate of “publication on demand” versions renders it pointless to continue. We have resisted the temptation to label it “complete” or “comprehensive” because to do so would seem ...
The Society was formed in 1984 with the main object of stimulating interest in and public awareness of the life and works of Jerome K. Jerome. The incentive to its formation was the opening, in July 1984, of a small museum in Belsize House, Walsall – the author’s birthplace. A major aim is to provide financial support to the museum so that ...
Jerome In Pictures; Photo gallery; Jerome In Words. Three Men – The Facts; Jerome The Man; Playwriting – A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors; Jerome k Jerome was here; Samson Fox; The Wit and Wisdom of Jerome; Parson Clapp of Appledore; Jerome was here; Bibliography. Books. 01. On the Stage – and Off: the Brief Career of a Would-be ...
Aug 31, 2013 · JEROME K JEROME WAS HERE… all of Jerome’s known addresses. 1859 Belsize House, Bradford Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. 1861 23 Lichfield Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. 1861-62 (3 Oct) Worcester Road, Stourbridge, Worcestershire. 1862-70 Sussex Street, Poplar (now Lindfield Street), London.
Jerome In Pictures; Photo gallery; Contact; Jerome In Words. Three Men – The Facts; Jerome The Man; Playwriting – A Handbook for Would-Be Dramatic Authors; Jerome k Jerome was here; Samson Fox; The Wit and Wisdom of Jerome; Parson Clapp of Appledore; Jerome was here; Bibliography. Books. 01. On the Stage – and Off: the Brief Career of a ...
