About this time, he also made the decision to be known by his first name of Robert rather than Edward. Settled in London by 1888, Long, through a stroke of luck, was introduced to Jerome K. ![]() Jerome (1859-1927), journalist and author of Three Men in a Boat (1889) fame, who promptly hired him as an office boy. Jerome was then the co-editor of The Idler and sole editor of To-Day, two of the most popular British periodicals of the time. Robert soon began writing book reviews and other short items which he then submitted to Jerome. For several years, Robert continued to develop and polish his writing skills, and accordingly rose through the ranks, so that by 1897, he found himself on the editorial staff both publications. He was become confident enough, while continuing to work for Jerome, to set out on his own and in 1894 became "engaged in journalism as London correspondent for American newspapers."įrom 1897 to 1904, he served as secretary to the famous English journalist, William Thomas Stead (1849-1912), who founded the Review of Reviews in 1890, and who went down with the RMS Titanic in 1912. Stead’s staff on the Review of Reviews in 1898, in which capacity he went to Russia to interview Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)". ![]() ![]() As a result, Robert Long became well-acquainted with the charismatic Russian novelist and philosopher (and author of War and Peace (1866)). Robert Crozier Long, who knew Tolstoy well." "Tolstoy, who had great personal sympathy with Stead, deplored the Review of Reviews." "It lacked the single intellectual and moral trend which Tolstoy wanted in everything." "I have this from my friend, Mr. Robert Long started work for the Westminster Gazette early in his career, circa 1898, when he first went to Russia, and stayed with them until the paper folded.
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