Three Men in a Boat 1891, "Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch" by Constance MacEwen was published. This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in "Three Men in a Boat" in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university. To take the place of Montmorency, they bring a cat called Tintoretto. Three Men in a Boat is referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, "The Ascent of Rum Doodle", where the head porter Bing is said to spend "much of his
Three Men on the Bummel or Academic fencing. The mensur sword duels are described at length, with little humour, and with Jerome expressing extreme disapproval for the tradition. Jerome would have been aware of Mark Twain's humorous travelogue, "A Tramp Abroad" (1880), based on a walking tour through similar parts of Germany, with extensive comments on the language and culture. "Three Men on the Bummel" follows in this vein. At least one of Jerome's remarks, however, is remarkably prescient: Jeremy Nicholas says that the book is "unfairly chastised as being an ineffectual afterthought" to "Three Men in a Boat", and that "the set pieces (the