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William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of mainly comic fiction.[1] The best remembered of his occasional horror stories is "The Monkey's Paw." He was born in Wapping, London on 8 September 1863, the son of William Gage Jacobs and his wife Sophia, née Wymark.[2] His father managed the South Devon wharf at Lower East. William and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then married his housekeeper and had seven children by her.[3] Jacobs attended a private London school and then Birkbeck College (Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London),
Jacobs married Agnes Eleanor Williams in 1900 at West Ham, Essex. Agnes was later a noted suffragette. The 1901 Census records their living with a first child, a three-month-old daughter, at Kings Place Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. Also recorded in the household were his journalist sister Amy, his sister-in-law, Nancy Williams, a cook, and an additional domestic servant. Altogether the Jacobs had two sons and three daughters.[9]
Jacobs went on to set up home in Loughton, Essex, first at the Outlook in Park Hill, and then at Feltham House in Goldings Hill, which bears a blue plaque to him. Loughton is the "Claybury" of some of the stories; Jacobs's love for the local forest scenery features in "Land Of Cockaigne". Another blue plaque appears on Jacobs's central London residence at 15 Gloucester Gate, Regents Park (later held by the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture).
Jacobs stated that after his youthful left-wing opinions, his political position in later years was "Conservative and Individualistic".[4]
On 7 January 1914, in King's Hall, Covent Garden, Jacobs was a member of the jury in the mock trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood. At this all-star event G. K. Chesterton was Judge and George Bernard Shaw appeared as foreman of the jury.[10]
W. W. Jacobs died on 1 September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington, London, at the age of 79. An obituary in The Times (2 September 1943) described him as "quiet, gentle and modest... not fond of large functions and crowds." Ian Hay remarked, "He invented an entirely new form of humorous narrative. Its outstanding characteristics were compression and understatement."[11]