Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1907 — Douglas Jerrold. [ARTICLE]

Douglas Jerrold.

With his father managing two theaters and his mother and two sister;

“treading the boards," It Is scarcely surprising to learn that Jerrold commenced life as an actor. But the nimble, crackling, original wit for which Jerrold became so famous soon began to assert Itself. At fifteen years of age he was contributing sonnets, epigrams and songs to the magazines, while ere he was twenty he had written numerous pieces for the stage. His dramas, both comic and serious, were characterized by a brilliancy which took the town by storm, while as a prose writer he proved himself of a particularly brilliant and original type.—Pall Mali Gazette.