Jerome k jerome biography

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born Jerome Clapp Jerome on 2 May 1859 in the Staffordshire town of Walsall. The family surname was originally Clapp, but his parents took the seemingly inexplicable decision to change it to Jerome.

The failure of his father’s colliery forced the family to decamp to London, where Jerome attended the Philological School (later Marylebone Grammar School). They lived in Poplar at the heart of the East End, where Jerome was tormented as an obvious outsider and the family had no choice but to relinquish their middle-class lifestyle.

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After his father’s death, the fourteen-year-old Jerome was obliged to find a job, working as a clerk for the London and North Western Railway. When his mother died two years later, Jerome was able to achieve his ambition of becoming an actor, a profession of which his god-fearing parents would have strongly disapproved.

Although touring with theatre companies provided variety and excitement,