Background
Arthur Morrison was born on November 1, 1863 in Poplar, London, United Kingdom. His father was an engine fitter.
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These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close-knit community—that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Having lived and worked there, he knew that his East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. He chronicled their adventures and misadventures, their wooings and their funerals, with sympathy, humor and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be found in the "mean streets, " from Lizerunt's disastrous marriage to Scuddy Lond's plausible but imperfect conversion and "Squire" Napper's quickly dispersed fortune.
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1895
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Here is the only critical edition of Arthur Morrison's searing tale of life in the slums of London's East End. Peter Miles's comprehensive edition offers unrivalled contextual material about the book, its author, and the social debates to which it contributed. The introduction discusses the real slums of London, Morrison's life and work, the social politics of the book, and its importance as a novel of social realism. Invaluable notes illuminate details of life in the East End and real-life parallels of Morrison's characters and situations. In addition, the book includes a glossary of slang terms. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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During the 1890s, the heyday of Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt ranked among England's most popular fictional detectives. A favorite of readers of The Strand and other magazines, Hewitt returns in this collection of nine of his best cases. Hewitt enters the scene in "The Lenton Croft Robberies," in which he is called upon to solve three successive jewel robberies whose only clues are three half-burnt wooden matches. In "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo," he must figure out how mechanical drawings for a new weapon could have vanished from an office that no one entered or left. In other cases, Hewitt examines the theft of a valuable cameo from a locked desk in a guarded house, the plunder of gold bullion from the hold of a sinking ship, and the disappearance of a will right from under the noses of the dying man's family. The final four stories concern a suicide that may be a murder, a marital case that isn't as simple as it seems, a clue to a treasure in a piece of music, and the robbery of a sacred relic. Novel and imaginative in subject matter, meticulously plotted, and smoothly written, these stories will captivate mystery lovers.
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Arthur Morrison was born on November 1, 1863 in Poplar, London, United Kingdom. His father was an engine fitter.
The facts of Morrison's education are unknown. He probably was an autodidact, reading his way into self-education.
In his twenties, Morrison was a clerk at a charitable institution, the People’s Palace, run by Walter Besant in the Mile End Road, London; he also had the opportunity to help edit the institution’s newsletter, and he credited Besant with teaching him much of the technique of writing.
Morrison’s early short stories drew on his People’s Palace observations to a considerable extent. His first story, in Macmillan’s Magazine, drew the attention of Henley, who invited him to join the contributors to Henley’s National Observer, a group that included Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, and James M. Barrie. Morrison was also briefly a staff member of the Globe.
Supporting himself as a freelance journalist and writer, Morrison moved to Loughton in Essex, apparently at some point between 1892 and 1896, then to High Beech, in Epping Forest, also in Essex. At age fifty, in 1913, he retired to concentrate on collecting Asian art, an interest that had already borne fruit in the publication of his well-regarded two-volume survey, The Painters of Japan (1911). His later fiction volumes were publications and selections of stories written earlier.
During World War I he was chief inspector for the Special Constabulary of Essex. He moved back to London after the war, where he lived in Cavendish Square, off Regent Street; he moved to a home in Chalmont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, in 1930, and died there in 1945. At his request, his wife burned all his manuscripts, letters, and papers after his death.
Morrison's best notable work of fiction is his novel A Child of the Jago (1896).
Morrison left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945.
In 2007 the Arthur Morrison Society was formed. It's task is to organize talks and other events as part of the Loughton Festival. These included a talk by Tim Clark (The British Museum) about Morrison's Japanese print collection.
(These stories are a brilliant evocatin of a narrow, close...)
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Morrison kept his own personality a mystery.
Morrison married Elizabeth Adelaide Thatcher in 1892. Their only child, Guy, was born in 1893 and died in 1921 of complications of malaria contracted during service in World War I.
