Talk:Jerome K. Jerome

Required reading as the cause of popularity in Russia

While it may be true about the other two countries mentioned, it is absolutley untrue about Russia; "Three men in a boat" was an immense success in the Soviet Union and still enjoys wide popularity with Russians, but was never a part of required reading in the USSR school program; more to this, most Soviet school students had no idea about who Jerome K. Jerome was. The book became popular amongst "intelligentsia" and eventually was made into a TV play, which though engaging the best actors at the time was not very well received and of somewhat dubious quality. It still managed to produce some memorable quotes. One critic called it "Three men in a boat without Jerome". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Morzh (talk • contribs) 03:19, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

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Need to Clarify Factual Basis for Three Men in a Boat

This article gives the impression that Jerome's honeymoon was the Thames trip that provided the factual basis for "Three Men" -- duly adapted to remove his wife from the trip and add George, Harris and the dog. A reader might conclude from the current wording that the Three Men were never on the river together to any significant degree prior to the appearance of the book. Is this correct? It is not the impression given by the Wikipedia article on Three Men in a Boat. Nandt1 (talk) 02:46, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I have tagged the sentence. After skimming several sources at http://books.google.com, it seems that Jerome and his two friends regularly took boating trips on the Thames[1] and that Jerome and his wife spent their honeymoon "in a little boat"[2]. --Jtir (talk) 19:24, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

God knows who wrote that uncited section, but it's not right. Jerome and his wife did honeymoon on the river, and he wrote the series of magazine pieces which became the novel shortly afterwards, presumably in a happy frame of mind as Tom Stoppard's classic 1975 TV adaptation suggests, but he had already taken many trips up the river with his friends Hentschel and Wingrave -- 'Harris' and 'George' -- and the Jerome K Jerome Society website has a photo of the Three Men in their boating gear, lounging against a treetrunk, and a later photo of them, again on the river, along with J's and Hentschel's wives (Wingrave never married). https://www.jeromekjerome.com/jerome-in-words/three-men/ Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:52, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Virtually empty

This sentence

The war experience was said to have dampened his spirit, as did the death in 1921 of his stepdaughter, Elsie.

is virtually empty. We expect men to find war unhappy, and to find the deaths of loved-ones unhappy; the sentence doesn't even quote tell us that much, hedging with “was said to have”. Now, what discernible effects did the war experience and death of his daughter have on his behavior? Did he stay in his rooms? Did he give-up adjectives and adverbs? What? —SlamDiego_←T 09:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

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Koana 2402:3A80:1FAA:BE55:0:0:7AD:300E (talk) 14:16, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

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