W. W. JACOB'S GREAT-AUNT.
Heredity is a funny thing. It may very well- happen that experts with nothing better to do will one day discover that we owe those delightful stories that come from the pen of Mr W W Jacobs to a great-aunt who had a turn for poetry. It seems a far-fetched suggestion, of course, but science has done worse. " In any case, in going over his pedigree with Mr. Jacobs recently (he has just turned 63), that was the only instance of a literary connection that we could discover," says a London paper. " His father was manager of a Wapping wharf, and his great-grandfather a seaman, which seems to explain his wonderful seafaring characters."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19502, 4 December 1926, Page 7 (Supplement)
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