Cheapjack
[Because of] my succession of failures in every occupation I had yet essayed...I decided to...
Golden Duck's edition of the 1934 bestseller Cheapjack by Margery Allingham's brother, Philip, containsover 30 photographs from the National Fairground Archive, the Allingham Society and other sources. An introduction by FRANCIS WHEEN discuses slumming in the 1930s and describes Cheapjack as an extraordinary autobiography. VANESSA TOULMIN of Sheffield University puts Cheapjack and its language in the context of the secretive society of showmen, hawkers and Gypsy travellers and calls it an important historic record. Margery Allingham's biographer, JULIA JONES, reveals the extent of detective novelist's involvement in Cheapjack and gives the wider story of this naive, eccentric and charming young man.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 328 pages
- ISBN: 9781899262021 / 1899262024
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One day in the early summer of 1928 Philip Allingham, a 21-year-old from a good family, looked out of the window of the room he had rented in an office in Londons Coventry Street, and considered his options. He had failed at school, then failed to get into Oxford; and then, despite being from a family in what we would now call the media,... Once a grafter, always a grafter...Philip Allingham - the brother of Margery Allingham, the English writer of detective fiction who is best remembered for her "golden age" stories featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion - being bored by a succession of office jobs to which he was ill suited, stepped out of his own social class and... [Because of] my succession of failures in every occupation I had yet essayed...I decided to steal out of London as quickly and as quietly as possible and join the gypsies.And so Phillip Allingham, aged 21, clad in a top hat and tails, joins the prewar world of the fairground grafters and pitchers, working the crowds up and down the...
