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W. W. Jacobs: Adventure on the Thames | Writers & Novelists Biography

William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8 September 1863 at 5, Crombie’s Row, Mile End Old Town , London, to William Gage Jacobs, wharf manager, and his wife Sophia. His father managed the South Devon wharf in Lower East Smithfield, by the St Katherine Docks and, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "the young Jacobs spent much time on Thames-side, growing familiar with the life of the neighbourhood" and "ran wild in Wapping". William and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then married his housekeeper and had seven more children. Jacobs attended a private London school before Birkbeck College , where he befriended William Pett Ridgcap. #W.W.Jacobs #biography #novelist #VIS #VISLITERATURE #Author #Literature