Jerome K. Jerome is a British writer of the Victorian period, best known for his comic novels. Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in the village of Caldmore in Central England on May 2, 1859. The family enjoyed a middle-class lifestyle for many years, although a series of bad investments forced them into poverty when Jerome was two years old. Because of this, the family had to leave their house, and Jerome grew up surrounded by the poorer section of the society, who detested him for his gentlemanly upbringing and tried to bully him. Possibly in January 1869 young Jerome gained admission at the Philological School. Although he dreamed big, aspiring to be a man of letters or a renowned politician, his father’s death in 1872 and mother’s in 1874 put an end to it and Jerome was forced to work menial jobs.
Despite these difficult circumstances, Jerome developed a passion for literature, politics, and the theatre. In his late teens and twenties, he held a variety of jobs including acting, journalism, and teaching school. Jerome finally broke through creatively in 1885, when he published a memoir about his time working for a low-budget theatre troupe. He then began to publish comedic essays in a magazine called Home Chimes. Then in 1914 I World War broke out, so Jerome was eager to contribute to the war effort. Because he was too old to join the British military, he drove an ambulance for the French throughout the war. He returned to England traumatized and psychologically damaged in 1926, and died in Northampton in 1927 of a stroke.…
