Eliza Cubitt received her BA and MA from King’s College London, and was awarded a PhD from UCL in 2016. She has published work on Morrison, W. Somerset Maugham and Margaret Harkness. She has taught at UCL and at Universität Tübingen, Germany. Since 2014, she has been a committee member of the Literary London Society.

• Introduction. I. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945): An East End WriterII. ‘The Pure Fame of the Place’: The Unreal Victorian SlumIII. ‘Who Knows Arthur Morrison?’IV. The Problem of Realism: Whose Reality is it Anyway? V. The Legacy of Slum FictionsChapter 1. Poplar and RatcliffI. Arthur Morrison: ‘Another Coming Man.’II. ‘The Scenes of his Wondering Childhood’: 1863-1887III. On Being Ministered To: ‘A Grateful People’IV. In Darkest Dockland and the Way OutChapter 2. Whitechapel I. Writing the Victorian East EndII. ‘Cockney Corners’: Sketches of the East EndIII. Sketches of Whitechapel, 1872-1889Chapter 3. Mile EndI. The People’s Palace: A ‘possibility, a certainty and a fact.’II. At the Palace, Looking West.III. From Mile End to The Strand.IV. ‘Henley’s Regatta’V. The Pursuit of HappinessChapter 4. Limehouse and StratfordI. ‘A Street’ and the reappraisal of the SlumII. Behind the Doors: Dangerous DomesticityIII. ‘Behind the Shade’: Gossip and the SilencedIV. Regions of Strange OrderV. Becoming ‘them’: The Reception of TalesChapter 5. Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and the ‘Jago’I. Father Jay and the Nichol Slum in fictionII. Creative reconstruction: Morrison’s ‘Jago’ and the Boundary Street SchemeChapter 6. Blackwall and the DocksI. Repenting for RealismII. Landscapes of the Mind: Epping and Blackwall in To London Town (1899).III. ‘Romance and squalor’: The Hole in the Wall (1902).Chapter 7. Return to the East EndI. ‘I foresaw a story’: The Bathos of the Journalist-Narrator in Divers Vanities (1905).II. Heads and Tales: London and ElsewhereIII. ‘I knew the place, indeed’: Return to the Mean StreetsIV. The inescapable Jago: Literary HauntingsV. ‘The Story that I am to Tell Again’: Folk RealismConclusion. I. ‘My Own Country’: Rewriting the East EndII. The Duty of the Respectable: the Self-Made man of lettersIII. ‘Another Way Out’: "The Farthest East"IV. Afterwords: ‘To correct your recollections…’V. ‘Well now, Arthur Morrison, how to put into words?’

Eliza Cubitt received her BA and MA from King’s College London, and was awarded a PhD from UCL in 2016. She has published work on Morrison, W. Somerset Maugham and Margaret Harkness. She has taught at UCL and at Universität Tübingen, Germany. Since 2014, she has been a committee member of the Literary London Society.

• Introduction. I. Arthur Morrison (1863-1945): An East End WriterII. ‘The Pure Fame of the Place’: The Unreal Victorian SlumIII. ‘Who Knows Arthur Morrison?’IV. The Problem of Realism: Whose Reality is it Anyway? V. The Legacy of Slum FictionsChapter 1. Poplar and RatcliffI. Arthur Morrison: ‘Another Coming Man.’II. ‘The Scenes of his Wondering Childhood’: 1863-1887III. On Being Ministered To: ‘A Grateful People’IV. In Darkest Dockland and the Way OutChapter 2. Whitechapel I. Writing the Victorian East EndII. ‘Cockney Corners’: Sketches of the East EndIII. Sketches of Whitechapel, 1872-1889Chapter 3. Mile EndI. The People’s Palace: A ‘possibility, a certainty and a fact.’II. At the Palace, Looking West.III. From Mile End to The Strand.IV. ‘Henley’s Regatta’V. The Pursuit of HappinessChapter 4. Limehouse and StratfordI. ‘A Street’ and the reappraisal of the SlumII. Behind the Doors: Dangerous DomesticityIII. ‘Behind the Shade’: Gossip and the SilencedIV. Regions of Strange OrderV. Becoming ‘them’: The Reception of TalesChapter 5. Shoreditch, Bethnal Green and the ‘Jago’I. Father Jay and the Nichol Slum in fictionII. Creative reconstruction: Morrison’s ‘Jago’ and the Boundary Street SchemeChapter 6. Blackwall and the DocksI. Repenting for RealismII. Landscapes of the Mind: Epping and Blackwall in To London Town (1899).III. ‘Romance and squalor’: The Hole in the Wall (1902).Chapter 7. Return to the East EndI. ‘I foresaw a story’: The Bathos of the Journalist-Narrator in Divers Vanities (1905).II. Heads and Tales: London and ElsewhereIII. ‘I knew the place, indeed’: Return to the Mean StreetsIV. The inescapable Jago: Literary HauntingsV. ‘The Story that I am to Tell Again’: Folk RealismConclusion. I. ‘My Own Country’: Rewriting the East EndII. The Duty of the Respectable: the Self-Made man of lettersIII. ‘Another Way Out’: "The Farthest East"IV. Afterwords: ‘To correct your recollections…’V. ‘Well now, Arthur Morrison, how to put into words?’