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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 ...
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This section contains a complete listing of all of Jerome’s published books. This list has be compiled by Frank Rodgers and the society thanks him most sincerely for this absolutely remarkable contribution. Use the menu on the right-hand side to navigate through all the works, which are listed in order of publication date. If you have any ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
Unpublished plays By Jerome. Pity is Akin to Love. London. Produced at the Olympic, 8 September 1888. New Lamps for Old. London. Produced at Terry’s, 8 February 1890. Typescript at the Bodleian Library. Ruth (with Addison Bright).
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 ...
THE IDLE THOUGHTS / OF AN IDLE FELLOW / A Book for an Idle Holiday / JEROME K. JEROME / [publisher’s device] / ARROWSMITH Pp. 1-6 7-173 174-76. Printed on wove paper, size 184 x 123mm. Green paper boards, blue-green cloth with green lettering on spine. Copies seen: FR 25th impression; APR (6, from 23rd-25th impressions, May 1945 –July 1947)
