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used to get up to all sorts of tricks and he was always presumed to be the inspiration for William by all of us. Having contracted polio she was severely crippled and confined to a wheelchair. Owing to her restricted movements she took her setting from her immediate surroundings which contained many of the features described, such as unspoilt woods and wide streams and
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As a boy I knew Miss Richmal Crompton Lamburn well. She lived quietly with her mother in Cherry Orchard Road, Bromley Common. My family lived next door. In those days it was a small rural village. Miss Lamburn was a delightful unassuming young woman and I used to play with her young nephew Tommy. He
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Crompton's fiction centres around family and social life, dwelling on the constraints that they place on individuals while also nurturing them. This is best seen in her depiction of children as puzzled onlookers of society's ways. Nevertheless, the children, particularly William and his Outlaws,
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was inspired by Just William, with the premise being the Antichrist in the place of William, and his gang ("The Them") in place of "The Outlaws". The initial working title for the novel was "William the Antichrist". Another of Pratchett's works, the
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Crompton never disclosed the source of inspiration for the main character William; different opinions exist. According to the actor John Teed, whose family lived next door to Crompton, the model for William was Crompton's nephew Tommy:
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in 1923 she was left without the use of her right leg. She gave up her teaching career and began to write full-time. She never married and had no children; she was an aunt and a great-aunt. Her
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stories, about a mischievous 11-year-old schoolboy and his band of friends, known as "The Outlaws". Her first published short story featuring William was "Rice Mould Pudding", published in
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The William books sold over 12 million copies in the United Kingdom alone. They have been adapted for films, stage-plays, and numerous radio and television series. Illustrations by
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in 1918, concerning a little boy named Thomas, a forerunner of William who reacts against authority. Crompton tried several times to reformulate William for other audiences.
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stories and her other literature were extremely successful and, three years after she retired from teaching, Crompton was able to afford to have a house (The Glebe) built in
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series, was also inspired by Just William, Pratchett stating that it was based very loosely on an idea of what Just William would be like in a 1990s setting.
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in southeast London where she began her writing in earnest. Cadogan shows that she was an excellent and committed teacher at both schools. Having contracted
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in 1919. (She had written "The Outlaws" in 1917, but it was not published until later.) In 1922, the first collection, entitled
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Crompton left the copyright of all her books to her niece, Mrs Richmal C. L. Ashbee of Chelsfield, Kent; along with ÂŖ57,623.
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in Bromley is named in her honour and contains framed prints and texts from the William series.
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in 1904. In order to further her chosen career as a schoolteacher, she won a scholarship to
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In 1914, she returned to St Elphin's as a Classics mistress and later, at age 27, moved to
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series of books, humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books.
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at the Papillon Graphics' Virtual Encyclopaedia of Greater Manchester.
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Crompton died in 1969 at the age of 78, after a heart attack, in
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books have been translated into sixteen or seventeen languages.
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Richmal Crompton Lamburn, pictured on the cover of her biography
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Richmal Crompton, author of Just William : a literary life
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was originally created for a grown-up audience, as she saw
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What's Wrong with Civilizashun and Other Important Ritings
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Children's literature, novels, short stories inspiring
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for the daughters of the clergy, originally based in
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People associated with the University of Roehampton
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Index

Richmal Crompton Lamburn, pictured on the cover of her biography
Bury, Lancashire
Farnborough Hospital, Bromley
Just William

Just William
Bury, Lancashire
Classics
master
Bury Grammar School
John Battersby Crompton Lamburn
St Elphin's Boarding School
Warrington
Lancashire
Darley Dale
Matlock
Derbyshire
Royal Holloway College
University of London
Englefield Green
Surrey
Classics
Women's Suffrage
Bromley High School
poliomyelitis
William
Bromley Common
Farnborough Hospital

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