A Child of the Jago

This book, written in 1896, is set in a slum area of London known at that time as The Jago. Even by 19th-century standards, it was a horrible place and was in the process of being cleared when he wrote the book. So the area is real but the characters are not. In this way, Morrison was more of a realist than Charles Dickens, showing how the environment shaped the lives of the people living there.