Morrison, Gissing, and the Stark Reality
1992; Duke University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1345890
ISSN1945-8509
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
ResumoFinally, in the early 1890s, the urban poor acquire a voice. Not the ventriloquized voice of Henry Mayhew, but the voice of one who was born in the East End of lower working-class parents, grew up there, worked there, and chose it as his subject. Arthur Morrison was born in Poplar in 1863, the son of an engine fitter who worked on the docks. His father died of consumption when Arthur was a boy, and his mother raised the three children by running a haberdasher's shop in Grundy Street. Arthur himself took a job early as office boy in the architect's department of the School Board of London at a weekly salary of seven shillings, and moved up to junior and then third class clerk in 1886, when he left to become secretary of the Beaumont Trust, which administered Besant's People's Palace. There he started a Dickensian kind of journalistic ascent, publishing pieces on the East End in the Palace Journal, honing his journalistic skills at the evening Globe, and finally attracting attention, like Boz, with the publication in Macmillan's Magazine (October 1891) of his sketch of A Street in the East End.'
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