Three Men in a Boat
Jerome Klapka Jerome, best known as the author of 'Three Men in a Boat',
one of the great comic masterpieces of modern times, was born in Walsall, Staffordshire,
on 2nd May 1859, the youngest of four children.
His father, who had interests in the local coal and iron industries and was a
prominant non-conformist preacher, had moved to the town in 1855 and installed
the family in a fashionable middle class house in Bradford Street where they
lived in comparative comfort until 1861. Following the collapse of the family
business, the Jeromes moved first to Stourbridge and thence to Poplar in the
East End of London where he was brought up in relative poverty.
Jerome
left school at fourteen and variously worked as a clerk, a hack journalist, an
actor ('I have played every part in Hamlet except Ophelin') and a schoolmaster.
His first
book 'On the Stage and Off' was published in 1885 and this was followed
by
numerous plays, books and magazine articles.
In 1927, one year
after writing his autobiography 'My life and Times', he was made a Freeman
of the Borough of Walsall. He died later the same year and is buried in Ewelne
in
Oxfordshire.
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