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2 unusual facts about A Child of the Jago


A Child of the Jago

The Kaiser Chiefs released the song "Child of the Jago" on their 2012 album The Future Is Medieval.

A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.


Boundary Estate

Jay persuaded Arthur 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 by Morrison as "The Jago": 'What was too vile for Kate Street, Seven Dials, and Ratcliffe Highway in its worst day, what was too useless, incapable and corrupt - all that teemed on the Old Jago'.


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