Characters:

- Father: Mr. White, old man

- Herbert, son
- Sergeant-Major Morris
- Wife, Mrs. White, old lady

Questions about these parts:

- “She then waited as patiently as her sex would permit” (p. 6)

Biography’s author:

- Jacobs was born an English rather than American writer. William Wymark Jacobs
was born in Wapping, London, England in 1863 and remained with us until 1943.
- After studying at the University of London's Birkbeck College, he worked as a civil
servant. He became a full-time writer after the publication of his 1898 short story
collection Sea Urchins.
- Jacobs’s early home was a house on a ​River Thames​ wharf, where his father was
manager. His first volume, ​Many Cargoes​ (1896), had an immediate success and was
followed by two others, ​The Skipper’s Wooing​ (1897) and ​Sea Urchins​ (1898). “The
Monkey’s Paw” (first published in ​The Lady of the Barge​, 1902), a tale of superstition
and terror unfolding within a realistic, Dickensian setting of domestic warmth and
coziness, is a felicitous example of Jacobs’s ability to combine everyday life and
gentle humour with exotic adventure and dread. An omnibus, ​Snug Harbour,
containing some 17 volumes of Jacobs’s work, was published in 1931.

or:
- William Wymark Jacobs, a British humorist best known for The Monkey’s Paw, 
was born on September 8, 1863 in London, England. His father, “William Gage 
Jacobs” (www.nndb.com), managed a South Devon wharf, and Jacobs and 
his brothers spent much time there. 
- After attending Birkbeck College, Jacobs became a clerk in civil service in 
1879, “a job that he hated” (www.enotes.com). From 1883 to 1899 he worked 
in the savings bank department. “A regular income was a welcomed change 
from his childhood of financial hardship.” (www.online-literature.com) He 
started submitting sketches to Blackfriars in 1885. 
- Many Cargoes was the W.W. Jacobs first collection of short stories in 1896. 
In 1897, The Skipper’s Wooing was written and in 1898 Jacobs wrote another 
collection of stories, Sea Urchins. “By 1899 Jacobs was confident enough to 
resign from the civil service to devote his full time to writing.” 
(www.online-literatre.com) After quitting work he said: 
- “It was not until I had been writing for some years for amusement and a little 
extra pocket-money that I bagan to write of the waterside… Then the 
coastwise trips that I had taken in my youth came back to me with all the 
illusion of the past. Barges, schooners, little steamships and the dingy old 
wharf at Wapping on which I had lived for four years, took on a new 
appearance. They came as old friends and helped to push a lazy pen” (x The 
Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and of the Macabre) 
- In 1900, Jacobs married Agnes Elanor. They had two sons and three 
daughters. 
- Jacobs wrote a novel in 1902, At Sunwich Port, and another in 1904, Dialstone 
Lane. “They are said to among his best, displaying exceptional talent to 
ingeniously devise characters and satirical situations.” 
(www.online-literature.com) In 1902 he wrote a collection of stories that were 
put together to form The Lady of the Barge. In 1914, W.W. Jacobs wrote his 
last collection of short stories called Night Watches. In 1931 he published 
Snug Harbor, a collection of theatrical plays. Even with all his humor writings, 
W.W Jacobs is still best known for his horror story, The Monkey’s Paw. When 
it came to humor, Jacobs was the best in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. 
Other books by him include “A Circular Tour, A Distant Relative, A Tiger’s Skin, 
Her Uncle, A Love-Knot, Watch-Dogs, and Breaking a Spell.” 
(www.americanliterature.com) 
 - W.W. Jacbos died in Islington, London on September 1, 1943, “in a London 
nursing home.” (xii The Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the 
Macabre) 
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