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Richmal Crompton, author of Just Williama literary life /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Richmal Crompton, author of Just Williamby Jane McVeigh.
Reminder of title:	a literary life /
Author:	McVeigh, Jane.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xix, 310 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Women authors, EnglishBiography.20th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96511-2
ISBN:	9783030965112$q(electronic bk.)

Richmal Crompton, author of Just Williama literary life /
McVeigh, Jane.

Richmal Crompton, author of Just Williama literary life /[electronic resource] :by Jane McVeigh. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xix, 310 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Literary lives. - Literary lives..

1. Introduction -- 2. Edward Lamburn and a Classical Education -- 3. William and Mr Brown -- 4. Clara Crompton and her Family in Bury -- 5. William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton -- 6. Royal Holloway College, the First World War and Women's Suffrage -- 7. Birth of Auntie and the Story of a Marriage -- 8. Birth of Richmal Crompton and William Brown -- 9. More than Auntie Richmal, the Spinster -- 10. Polio in Summer 1923 -- 11. Birth of Violet Elizabeth and Introducing William-Lite Characters -- 12. Growing Up -- 13. On Stage and in Literary London -- 14. Richmal Crompton, the Wanderer -- 15. On the Home Front with William and Richmal -- 16. William, Flawed Hero -- 17. William Becomes a Postwar Hero on TV and Radio -- 18. Richmal Crompton in Her Own Words -- 19. William, At Home and Abroad -- 20. Writers' Homage to Crompton and William.

Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922) As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton's less well-known fiction and a story about her writing life. Her multifaceted identity-her deep knowledge of Classical Greek and Latin literature and languages, her life as a disabled writer, and her writing about domestic violence and disability-played a role in her literary persona. Jane McVeigh moves beyond Richmal Crompton's impact on children's literature and offers an appraisal of all her writing including her novels and short fiction, her media profile on radio and TV, her impact on her readers-both adults and children-and her international success. Particularly, McVeigh considers Crompton in the context of twentieth century woman writers and the development of crossover fiction for dual audiences. The book argues that as a woman writer pigeon-holed as a writer for children, Crompton's other novels and short stories have been side-lined and overlooked. More than a century after the first book collection of Crompton's William stories was published, this biography places Richmal Crompton among other twentieth century women writers. Jane McVeigh is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK where the Richmal Crompton Collection is located.

ISBN: 9783030965112$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-96511-2doiSubjects--Personal Names:

925260
Crompton, Richmal,
1890-1969.Subjects--Topical Terms:

925261
Women authors, English
--20th century--Biography.

LC Class. No.: PR6023.A516

Dewey Class. No.: 823.912

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