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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On the Home Front with William and Richmalies reflect both day-to-day experience on the home front and political currents in the build up to and during the war. Crompton’s novel . (1941) is a powerful classical allegory on the evil of corrupting and malevolent power and two other novels are representative of life on the home front. They tou

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Polio in Summer 1923essional view of Richmal Crompton held by those who knew her and had the power and influence to promote her work is likely to have changed, but Crompton was defiant and continued to pursue her career. She wrote about characters with disabilities in her novels and was active in organisations raising the profile of disabled people’s experience.

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Clara Crompton and Her Family in Burya boarder at St Elphin’s School in Warrington for the daughters of the clergy. From 1908, she stayed on for three years as a teacher. Becoming a pupil-teacher was one of the few options open to educated young women who needed to earn their own living.

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William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton’s Fictioninant mother figure feared in some of Crompton’s novels and she is more tolerant towards her son than her husband. Mothers who are overbearing and controlling within the home and who interfere in every corner of their families’ lives are a feature of Crompton’s other fiction.

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