The Idler

2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927

An English writer and humourist who led a very complex life (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome>Wikipedia</a>).

16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912

A Canadian/British writer of novels and short stories (<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barr_(writer)>Wikipedia</a>). Born in Scotland, he went with his parents to Canada when he was four, taught and did some writing in Canada until he emigrated to England in 1881 where he did most of his writing and was associated with, inter alia, <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL215610A>Jerome K. Jerome</a> and Sir <a href=http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2623297A>Arthur Conan Doyle</a>.