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'''Event: ''' Lived in Folkestone 1909-1912.
 
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AUGUST 20.—I am glad our last day at the seaside was fine, though clouded overhead. We went over to Cummings' (at Margate) in the evening, and as it was cold, we stayed in and played games; Cowing, as usual, overstepping the mark. He suggested we should play "Cutlets," a game we never heard of. He sat on a chair, and asked Carrie to sit on his lap, an invitation which dear Carrie rightly declined.
 
AUGUST 20.—I am glad our last day at the seaside was fine, though clouded overhead. We went over to Cummings' (at Margate) in the evening, and as it was cold, we stayed in and played games; Cowing, as usual, overstepping the mark. He suggested we should play "Cutlets," a game we never heard of. He sat on a chair, and asked Carrie to sit on his lap, an invitation which dear Carrie rightly declined.
  
 
''The Diary of a Nobody” (1892).  
 
''The Diary of a Nobody” (1892).  
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Actor and theatrical manager, producer and director, George Grossmith is perhaps best known today for his comic ”Diary of a Nobody”, written with his brother Weedon. He retired to Folkestone in 1909 and died there in 1912.  
 
Actor and theatrical manager, producer and director, George Grossmith is perhaps best known today for his comic ”Diary of a Nobody”, written with his brother Weedon. He retired to Folkestone in 1909 and died there in 1912.  

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George Grossmith (1847-1912) Dramatist and author.

Event: Lived in Folkestone 1909-1912.


AUGUST 20.—I am glad our last day at the seaside was fine, though clouded overhead. We went over to Cummings' (at Margate) in the evening, and as it was cold, we stayed in and played games; Cowing, as usual, overstepping the mark. He suggested we should play "Cutlets," a game we never heard of. He sat on a chair, and asked Carrie to sit on his lap, an invitation which dear Carrie rightly declined.

The Diary of a Nobody” (1892).


Actor and theatrical manager, producer and director, George Grossmith is perhaps best known today for his comic ”Diary of a Nobody”, written with his brother Weedon. He retired to Folkestone in 1909 and died there in 1912.

Article George Grossmith was an actor and theatrical manager, producer and director. But his lasting contribution to literature is the comic ”Diary of a Nobody”, written with his brother Weedon Grossmith. The book was first published in volume form and with illustrations, in 1892. But the original version was serialised in ”Punch” between 1888 and 1889 under the editorship of F. C. Burnand, making it a direct rival to Jerome K. Jerome’s 1889 “Three Men in a Boat”. The Grossmiths’ comic creation Charles Pooter (the eponymous ‘nobody’) lives in the London suburbs, but gives a typically methodical account of his holiday in Broadstairs CO TO RS: THIS SHOULD LINK TO VICTORIAN BROADSTAIRS, NOT 20C with his wife Caroline and their son the self-named Lupin. He begins enthusiastically enough, noting that he has secured ‘Very nice apartments near the station. On the cliffs they would have been double the price. The landlady had a nice five o'clock dinner and tea ready, which we all enjoyed, though Lupin seemed fastidious because there happened to be a fly in the butter.’ But the hapless Pooter is aghast to find that his son is frequenting the Assembly Rooms, where he sees ‘Polly Presswell, England's Particular Spark’. Pooter replies testily that I’ was proud to say I had never heard of her.’ But things get worse when the family go over to nearby Margate CO TO RS: 19C MARGATE (interestingly there is no commentary on Ramsgate, where Burnand lived) to visit their friends Cummings and Gowing: Cowing, as usual, overstepping the mark. He suggested we should play ‘Cutlets,’ a game we never heard of. He sat on a chair, and asked Carrie to sit on his lap, an invitation which dear Carrie rightly declined. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Nobody/Chapter_6

When George Grossmith retired in 1909 he moved to Folkestone and died at 32 Manor Road on 1 March 1912. But like fellow authors W. M. Thackeray and Wilkie Collins he is buried in London, at Kensal Green Cemetery.

Bibliography Grossmith, George and Weedon. “The Diary of a Nobody.” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Nobody/Chapter_6 Joseph, Tony. ‘Grossmith, George (1847-1912).’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 3 January 2008. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/33590