He was employed at the London and North Western Railway, initially collecting coal that fell along the railway, and remained there for four years. The young Jerome wished to go into politics or be a man of letters, but the death of both his parents in 1872, when he was 13 years old, forced him to quit his studies and find work to support himself. Due to bad investments in the local mining industry, the family suffered poverty, and debt collectors often visited, an experience Jerome described vividly in his autobiography My Life and Times. Jerome was the fourth child of Jerome Clapp Jerome, a lay preacher who dabbled in architecture, and Marguerite Jones. 6.4 Anthologies containing stories by Jerome K.3 "Three Men in A Boat" and Later Career.2 Acting Career and Early Literary Works.
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