Ginx’s Baby is a satirical novel about the thirteenth child of a man named Ginx, who is passed from charity to charity as he grows into a young delinquent. The main theme of the book is social attitudes towards poverty and criticism of the dysfunctional charity system of the time.
About the Author
Edward Jenkins
Edward Jenkins combined work as a British lawyer, social reformer, satirist, and Liberal member of Parliament, and his fiction often challenged public complacency. Ginx’s Baby, first published anonymously in 1870 with the fuller subtitle His Birth and Other Misfortunes, made him widely known. The satire…
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