Titlebook: Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William; A Literary Life Jane McVeigh Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exc

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Clara Crompton and Her Family in Buryed by tragedy and the First World War. The Crompton family were part of the comfortable business community whose wealth grew in Bury at the end of the nineteenth century. The homes Clara’s family lived in embodied this world..After her childhood in Bury, Lancashire, Richmal joined her older Gwen as

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William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton’s Fictionls echo the milieu familiar to the Crompton family in Bury. In common with other women writers of the period, Crompton gives us a critique of middle-class society and family values in her fiction, and this is particularly sharp in her comedies..In the Brown family, Mrs Brown is certainly not the dom

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Birth of Violet Elizabeth and Introducing William-Lite Charactersal Joan, who always makes William feel better about himself, and the abrasive, unpredictable Violet Elizabeth, who makes him feel ill at ease and shares his sense of adventure. They influence William’s life for good and ill. Crompton had the energy, sense of purpose and ambition of both William and

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Growing UpCrompton’s novels are based on episodes and scenes in which we capture her characters at specific moments, or facing a turning point in their lives as they grow older. These novels explore what we become as the years pass, how we see ourselves at different stages in our lives, and whether we could h

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