Jerome K. Jerome was a popular turn-of-the-century humorist. He was a born storyteller, and his works often began as anecdotes that he developed into short stories, plays, essays, or novels. He sometimes used his short stories as the initial embodiments...
The theatrical career of Jerome K. Jerome spanned fifty years in the history of the English stage, covering the field from strolling actor and "responsible" in London's East End theaters to drama critic and playwright of one of the most popular plays of...
Jerome K. Jerome was a familiar name at the turn of the nineteenth century and in the first quarter of the twentieth. He was a humorist, who, under the pose of "the Idler," made his reputation as an essayist, the editor of two magazines (the Idler, 1892-...
Antiques & Collectibles Can an 18th-century tea table trump another 18th-century tea table that sold last fall for $6,761,000, setting an auction record for Philadelphia furniture? The answer will come when the McMichael-Tilghman Chippendale carved and figured mahogany tea table, one of...
Antiques & Collectibles It was a tale of two cities' tea tables at New York's Americana auctions this month with the Philadelphia table winning out over the Boston one when it sold for $6,761,000 at Christie's on Oct. 3, setting an auction record...
