In 1901, he published his first professional written work entitled "The Bellamy Diamonds" in the magazine Spare Moments. At the age of ten he was removed to a home for middle-class boys who were "espectably descended but without adequate means to their support." When Burke turned sixteen he started working as an office boy, a job that he deeply detested. Burke's father died when he was barely a few months old and he was eventually sent to live with his uncle in Poplar. Griffith based his film Dream Street (1921) on Burke's "Gina of Chinatown" and "Song of the Lamp".īurke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on 29 November 1886 in Clapham Junction. Griffith used another tale from the collection, "The Chink and the Child" as the basis of his screenplay for the movie Broken Blossoms. That same year, American film director D. "The Lamplit Hour", an incidental poem from Limehouse Nights, was set to music in the United States by Arthur Penn in 1919. Many of Burke's books feature the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. His first successful publication was Limehouse Nights (1916), a collection of stories centred on life in the poverty-stricken Limehouse district of London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Burke (29 November 1886 – 22 September 1945) was a British author. Homeopathic Hospital, Bloomsbury, London, England
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