Author: MORRISON, ARTHUR
Title: A Child of the Jago a Novel Set in the London Slums in the 1890s
Description: Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 0897333926. An Academy Victorian Classic, Reprint Of The 1897 Third Edition Series; 7.9 X 4.9 X 0.5 inches; 164 pages; Soft cover has blue spine with black lettering. NEW book. 2009 reprint of the 1995 original. 'This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.'. New .

Keywords: 0897333926 9780897333924; Cultural History; Social History; English History; Slums; Poverty; London; 19th Century England; Victorian England; Historical Fiction Juvenile Fiction Cultural History Geography English/British History Government/Economics/Law/P