A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. It recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child living in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation...
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Joseph Corré (category English people of Portuguese-Jewish descent)
at the erosion in civil rights in the UK during Blair's term. In 2008 Corré founded the opening of the independent boutique "A Child of the Jago", named...
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Arthur Morrison (category Members of the Detection Club)
his novel A Child of the Jago (1896). Morrison was born on 1 November 1863 in suburban Poplar. His father George was an engine fitter at the London Docks...
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Jago may refer to: Jago, a port and town on the Indonesian island of Singkep, Riau Islands Province Jago, County Kildare, a former civil parish in County...
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third child, another boy. Jago returned to ITV News Anglia on 5 November 2013. BBC Sport Academy Sporty as a youngster - Becky Jago University of Bedfordshire...
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Boundary Estate (category Geography of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
Morrison to visit the area, and the result was the influential A Child of the Jago, a barely fictionalised account of the life of a child in the slum, re-christened...
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taken from the lyrics of the track "Child of the Jago". The album was uniquely promoted in the United Kingdom, as copies purchased from the band's website...
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1896 novel A Child of the Jago caused England to change its housing laws. George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities...
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Shoreditch High Street (category Streets in the London Borough of Hackney)
the east is the Boundary Estate, formerly the infamous "Jago" of Arthur Morrison's 1896 novel A Child of the Jago. The concentration of striptease pubs...
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East End literature (category East End of London)
Morrison (1863–1945), a native East-Ender, wrote A Child of the Jago (1896) a fictional account of the extreme poverty encountered in the Old Nichol Street...
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