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== Legacy == * ''Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl'', a book by the pseudonymous "Jenny Wren", was published in 1891. The author is anonymous. The book has the same form as ''Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'', but is from the point of view of a woman.<ref>[http://logiston.com/oddends/2005/08/lazy-thoughts-of-a-lazy-girl Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl – Odd Ends<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928204302/http://logiston.com/oddends/2005/08/lazy-thoughts-of-a-lazy-girl |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref><ref>{{Gutenberg book|no=16507|name=Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl}}</ref> * Science fiction author [[Connie Willis]] credited Jerome as the source for the title of her novel ''[[To Say Nothing of the Dog]]'', this being the subtitle of ''Three Men in a Boat''. * In 2024, a second science fiction pastiche novel appeared, now written by Sandra Bond and entitled ''Three Men in Orbit''. * The fictional, Parisian private detective ''{{Interlanguage link|Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche|fr}}'' is named after the author. He is the protagonist in series of French [[graphic novel]]s that were first published in 1982. * From 1984 to 2008, there was a museum honouring Jerome in Walsall, his birthplace.<ref>Lambert, Tim [http://www.localhistories.org/walsall.html "A Brief History of Walsall, England"]</ref> * A sculpture of a boat and a mosaic of a dog commemorate his book ''Three Men in a Boat'' on the [[Millennium Green]] in New Southgate, London, where he lived as a child. * There is an English Heritage blue plaque which reads 'Jerome K. Jerome 1859–1927 Author Wrote 'Three Men in a Boat' while living here at flat 104' at 104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom. It was erected in 1989.<ref>Open Plaques [http://openplaques.org/plaques/7617 "Open Plaques – Jerome K. Jerome"]</ref> * There is a beer company named Cerveza Jerome in Mendoza, Argentina. Its founder was a fan of ''Three Men in a Boat''.<ref>Los Andes [https://web.archive.org/web/20151222153417/http://www.losandes.com.ar/article/print/articulo/viaje-favorito-671293 "Viaje Favorito"]</ref> * A building at Walsall Campus, University of Wolverhampton is named after him. * [[British Rail]] named one of its [[British Rail Class 31|Class 31]] diesel locomotives after him on 6 May 1990 at Bescot.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gwra.co.uk/auctions/nameplate-jerome-k-jerome-ex-br-diesel-class-31-31-2018mar-0250.html|title = Nameplate JEROME K. JEROME Ex BR Diesel Class 31 – Nameplates Diesel}}</ref>
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