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This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End

A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.A bestseller in its time, [1] it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Ol

This book, written in 1896, is set in a slum area of London known at that time as The Jago. Even by 19th-century standards, it was a horrible place and was in t

In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive amo