Arthur Morrison

A Child of the Jago Annotated Arthur Morrison

A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. The novel opens after midnight on a hot summer night, when many of the residents of the Jago, likened to "great rats", prefer to sleep in the street to avoid the oppressive heat and stench of the closely packed houses. A man lured into a dwelling by a woman is brutally coshed, robbed and dragged unconscious into the street where others remove his boots.