biography
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| (1863–1945)
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| Novelist and short-story writer, born in London, UK. He became clerk to the People's Palace in Mile End Road, London, then a journalist on the National Observer, for which he wrote a series of stories published as Tales of Mean Streets (1894). His powerfully realistic novels of London slum life include A Child of the Jago (1896), which is believed to have accelerated changes in British housing legislation and the elimination of the worst of the slums. He also wrote detective stories featuring the private investigator, Martin Hewett. |
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