Fiction · 1870
Ginx’s Baby
His Birth and Other Misfortunes; A Satire
Ginx’s Baby, first published in 1870, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Preface
- Part I — What Ginx Did with Him
- II.—Home, sweet Home!
- III.—Work and Ideas.
- IV.—Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History.
- V.—Reasons and Resolves.
- VI.—The Antagonism of Law and Necessity.
- VII.—Malthus and Man.
- VIII.—The Baby’s First Translation.
- Part II — What Charity and the Churches Did with Him
- II.—The Protestant Detectoral Association.
- III.—The Sacrament of Baptism.
- IV.—Law on Behalf of Gospel.
- V.—Magistrate’s Law.
- VII.—A Protestor, but not a Protestant.
- VIII.—“See how these Christians love one another.”
- IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences.
- X.—The Force—and a Specimen of its Weakness.
- XI.—The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace.
- XII.—No Funds—no Faith, no Works.
- XIII.—In transitu.
- Part III — What the Parish Did with Him
- II.—A Board of Guardians.
- III.—“The World is my Parish.”
- IV.—Without prejudice to any one but the Guardians.
- V.—An Ungodly Jungle.
- VI.—Parochial Benevolence—and another translation.
- Part IV — What the Clubs and Politicians Did with Him
- II.—Club Ideas.
- III.—A thorough-paced Reformer—if not a Revolutionary.
- IV.—Very Broad Views.
- V.—Party Tactics—and Political Obstructions to Social Reform.
- VI.—Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body.
- Part V — What Ginx’s Baby Did with Himself
- Chapter Last
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About the author
1838–1910 · Victorian
Edward Jenkins (1838–1910) was a barrister and Liberal politician who made his name with Ginx's Baby (1870), a satire on rival religious charities fighting over a poor child that caused a sensation on publication and influenced the religious-education compromise in that year's Education Act. He went on to sit as MP for Dundee (1874–1880), served on the Royal Commission on Copyright, and later worked as Agent-General for Canada, promoting emigration to the Dominion.
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