Three Men in a Boat Boat" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog". The trip is
The Girl on the Boat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Atlantic The Girl on the Boat The Girl on the Boat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It first appeared in 1921 as a serial in the "Woman's Home Companion" in the United States under the title "Three Men and a Maid". It was first published as a book in the United States on April 26, 1922, by George H. Doran, New York, and as " The Girl on the Boat" in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on June 15, 1922. The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennett, and the three men are: