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JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 328 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEROME, JEROME See also:KLAPKA (1859– ) , See also:English author, , was See also:born on the 2nd of May 1859. He was educated at the philological school, Marylebone, See also:London; and was by turns clerk, schoolmaster and actor, before he settled down to See also:journal-ism. He made his reputation as a humorist in 1889 with Idle Thoughts of an Idle See also:Fellow and Three Men in a See also:Boat, and from 1892 to 1897 he was co-editor of the Idler with See also:Robert See also:Barr. At the same See also:time he was also the editor of To-See also:Day. A one-See also:act See also:play of his, See also:Barbara, was produced at the Globe See also:theatre in 1886, and was followed by many others, among them Sunset (1888), See also:Wood See also:Barrow See also:Farm (1891), The Passing of the Third See also:Floor Back (1907). Among his later books are Letters to Clorinda (1898), The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1898), Three Men on the Bummel (1900), Tommy and Co. (1904), They and 1 (1909).

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