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ARTHUR MORRISON (1863– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 873 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARTHUR See also:MORRISON (1863– )  , See also:English novelist, was See also:born in See also:Kent on the 1st of See also:November 1863 . He was for a See also:short See also:time a clerk in the See also:civil service, and in 1890 took to journalism . He had already published scattered tales and sketches of See also:low See also:life in See also:London when W . E . See also:Henley, with whom he was connected as a contributor to the See also:National Observer, suggested their publication in See also:volume See also:form . Tales of Mean Streets (1894) immediately attracted See also:attention, and this was followed by A See also:Child of the See also:Jago (1896), the See also:scene of which is laid between High See also:Street, See also:Shoreditch, and Bethnal See also:Green Road . Cunning Murrell (1900), The Hole in the See also:Wall (1902), and the detective stories, See also:Martin See also:Hewitt, Investigator (1894), which had sequels in 1894 and 1896, and The Green See also:Eye of Gorma, are among his other See also:works .

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