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Stories with a Vengeance

1883 · Free to read

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About this issue

Stories with a Vengeance features "The Story of Jack the Painter and the Three Ugly Old Women," a moral tale by George Augustus Sala. The narrative follows John Fuseli Halstead, a twenty-five-year-old painter living in Fitzroy Square, whose singular failing is chronic profligacy. Despite possessing excellent character traits—bravery, honesty, generosity—Jack cannot retain money. Inheriting five thousand pounds, he squanders it through reckless expenditure, failed business schemes (including an indigo manufacturing venture), and loans to unreliable acquaintances. After studying under genre painter M. Couscoussou in Paris and attempting ambitious historical paintings like "Richelieu Dancing His Saraband Before Anne of Austria," Jack depletes his entire capital. The narrative establishes his financial ruin as prelude to encounters with three elderly women, setting up the moral instruction that forms the tale's purpose.

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“The Story of Jack the Painter, and the Three Ugly Old Women” by George Augustus Sala · p.9

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