“If he writes a four thousand word story in a month, he feels he has earned a holiday and the reason that he does not always take it is that he is generally too tired.
Often he will spend… an entire morning constructing a single sentence,” Jerome wrote. Lampooning Victorian values with essays, cartoons and anecdotal tales, it also contained sports reports and short stories.Īnother of the many contributors was W. Jerome was well-connected in literary society at this point and with such mordant and witty contributors as Mark Twain, Luke Sharpe (Barr’s pseudonym), Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle it was a huge success. It was a satirical gentlemen’s illustrated monthly catering to men who appreciated idleness, and extolled the virtues of idle-making pursuits. Now well-placed in the heart of literary London, in 1893 Jerome founded the co-weekly Today and in 1892 he founded and co-edited The Idler with his friend and fellow humourist Robert Barr. It clinched his reputation as a humourist and he was encouraged to devote his full efforts to writing. ” Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog) Jerome’s penury had paid off and Three Men in a Boat was an instant success. It is not that I object to the work, mind you I like work: it fascinates me.
“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. The story was inspired by his honeymoon and based on himself and two real-life friends, George Wingrave, whom he’d met while a clerk, and Carl Hentschel whom he’d met through the theatre.
Despite his straitened circumstances he kept his sardonic humour and wrote his slapstick tale of a riverboat trip up the Thames, Three Men in a Boat, (1889) subtitle to say nothing of the dog. Jerome and Georgina’s daughter Rowena was born in 1898. ” On 21 June 1888 Jerome married divorcee Georgina Elizabeth Henrietta Stanley Marris, “Ettie” (1859–1938) who had a daughter from her previous marriage, his beloved “Elsie” who would die in 1921.
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