![]() The streets are fraught with danger: disease, malnutrition, kidnappers, other gangs, and the elements. They will gift her with a penny or two, if she is lucky. She is the tiniest of the orphans, and stands on a larger boy’s shoulders outside the local printer’s shop, reading the broadsheets to the illiterate masses. The gang does what a gang will do in these times: beg, steal, connive and raid other gang’s lairs, stealing to meet the needs of the children. She is picked up by Rooster Charlie’s gang, fed, and given “housing” under a nearby bridge. She is immediately mugged by a local gang and left crying in the streets in only her shift. It is the 1800s, a time when an orphan thrown forcefully onto the streets had very few options. Mother, Father and her younger sister have all died in the plague besieging London. Mary Faber has nothing left of her family. ![]() Patten Free Library > Staff Picks > Book Review: Bloody Jack | Posted by: Lesley Dolinger on DecemBook Review: Bloody Jackīloody Jack: Being an account of the curious adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, ship’s boy ![]()
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