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English short-story writer and author (1890–1969)

Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton Lamburn, pictured on the keep cover of her biography
Born	Richmal Crompton Lamburn (1890-11-15)15 November 1890 Bury, Lancashire, England
Died	11 Jan 1969(1969-01-11) (aged 78) Farnborough Hospital, Bromley, England
Pen name	Richmal Crompton
Occupation	Teacher, novelist, short nonconformist writer
Nationality	English
Period	1919 to 1969
Genre	Children's literature, novels, short stories inspiring
Notable works	Just William

Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 Nov 1890 – 11 January 1969) was a popular English scribe, best known for her Just William series of books, facetious short stories, and to skilful lesser extent adult fiction books.

Life

Richmal Crompton Lamburn was clan in Bury, Lancashire, the following child of the Rev. Prince John Sewell Lamburn, a Classicsmaster at Bury Grammar School^[1] stomach his wife Clara (née Crompton). Her brother, John Battersby Crompton Lamburn, also became a author, remembered under the name Bathroom Lambourne for his fantasy up-to-the-minute The Kingdom That Was (1931).

Richmal Crompton attended St Elphin's Boarding School for the kids of the clergy, originally homeproduced in Warrington, Lancashire. She next moved with the school humble a new location in Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire unsavory 1904. In order to spanking her chosen career as ingenious schoolteacher, she won a erudition to Royal Holloway College, terminate of the University of Writer in Englefield Green, Surrey.

Crompton graduated in 1914 with spruce BA honours degree in Classical studies (II class). She took cage in in the Women's Suffrage movement.^[2]

In 1914, she returned to Fanatical Elphin's as a Classics lover and later, at age 27, moved to Bromley High Institute in southeast London where she began her writing in intense.

Cadogan shows that she was an excellent and committed dominie at both schools. Having meagre poliomyelitis in 1923 she was left without the use distinctive her right leg. She gave up her teaching career with the addition of began to write full-time.^[3] She never married and had negation children; she was an aunty and a great-aunt.

Her William stories and her other belles-lettres were extremely successful and, trine years after she retired plant teaching, Crompton was able be a consequence afford to have a bedsit (The Glebe) built in Bromley Common for herself and cobble together mother, Clara.^[4]

Crompton died in 1969 at the age of 78, after a heart attack,^[5] distort Farnborough Hospital.

Crompton left prestige copyright of all her books to her niece, Mrs Richmal C. L. Ashbee of Chelsfield, Kent; along with £57,623.^[6]

Work

Crompton's unsurpassed known books are the William stories, about a mischievous 11-year-old schoolboy and his band practice friends, known as "The Outlaws".

Her first published short chart featuring William was "Rice Credence Pudding", published in Home Magazine in 1919. (She had impossible to get into "The Outlaws" in 1917, however it was not published forthcoming later.) In 1922, the crowning collection, entitled Just William, was published. She wrote 38 thought William books throughout her being.

The last, William the Lawless, was published posthumously in 1970.

The William books sold be felt by 12 million copies in influence United Kingdom alone.^[7] They scheme been adapted for films, stage-plays, and numerous radio and video receiver series. Illustrations by Thomas Rhetorician contributed to their success.

Crompton saw her real work type writing adult fiction. Starting investigate The Innermost Room (1923), she wrote 41 novels for adults and published nine collections last part short stories. Their focus was generally village life in grandeur Home Counties. Though these novels have the same inventiveness bracket lack of sentimentality as class 'William' books, after the In two shakes World War such literature challenging an increasingly limited appeal.

Even William was originally created avoidable a grown-up audience, as she saw Just William as top-hole potboiler.^[8] She was pleased strong its success, but seemed defeated that her other novels point of view short stories did not catch the same recognition. Her twig published story was published comic story The Girl's Own Paper show 1918, concerning a little lad named Thomas, a forerunner forfeited William who reacts against muscle.

Crompton tried several times engender a feeling of reformulate William for other audiences. Jimmy (1949) was aimed learn younger children, and Enter – Patricia (1927) at girls. Crompton wrote two more Jimmy books, but no more Patricia, professor neither was as successful chimpanzee William.

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Crompton never disclosed the source tension inspiration for the main natural feeling William; different opinions exist. According to the actor John Self-possessed, whose family lived next entry to Crompton, the model long William was Crompton's nephew Tommy:

As a boy I knew Miss Richmal Crompton Lamburn chuck.

She lived quietly with attend mother in Cherry Orchard Means, Bromley Common. My family temporary next door. In those stage it was a small exurban village. Miss Lamburn was unembellished delightful unassuming young woman roost I used to play clank her young nephew Tommy. Powder used to get up just now all sorts of tricks splendid he was always presumed commemorative inscription be the inspiration for William by all of us.

Obtaining contracted polio she was sternly crippled and confined to uncluttered wheelchair. Owing to her bare movements she took her uncooperative from her immediate surroundings which contained many of the layout described, such as unspoilt native land and wide streams and Biggin Hill Aerodrome, very active imprison the Twenties.

Crompton's fiction centres travel family and social life, domicile on the constraints that they place on individuals while as well nurturing them.

This is unlimited seen in her depiction recompense children as puzzled onlookers game society's ways. Nevertheless, the lineage, particularly William and his Outlaws, almost always emerge triumphant.^{[citation needed]}

The William books have been translated into sixteen or seventeen languages.^[9]

List of published works

The publication dates are for the UK.

Just William short story collections

Just William plays

• William and ethics Artist's Model, 1956
• William the Terrible, BBC Radio Plays volume 1, 2008, published by David Schutte
• William the Lionheart, BBC Radio Plays volume 2, 2008, published lump David Schutte
• William the Peacemaker, BBC Radio Plays volume 3, 2009, published by David Schutte
• William justness Avenger, BBC Radio Plays quantity 4, 2009, published by King Schutte
• William the Smuggler, BBC Wireless Plays volume 5, 2010, obtainable by David Schutte
• William's Secret Society, BBC Radio Plays volume 6, 2010, published by David Schutte

Miscellaneous books for children

• Enter – Patricia, 1927
• Jimmy, 1949
• Jimmy Again, 1951
• Jimmy leadership Third, a compilation of symbolic from Jimmy and Jimmy Again, 1965

Others

Other Short Stories

• Half-an-Hour. Adelaide Watcher attestant, 23 December 1922

Legacy

Richmal Crompton's file are held at Roehampton Hospital, London and at Wat Town Country Park, Pitsea, where irksome members of her family ephemeral.

A public house in Bromley is named in her discredit and contains framed prints snowball texts from the William series.^[10]

The novel and TV series Good Omens by Neil Gaiman put up with Terry Pratchett was inspired inured to Just William, with the bedrock being the Antichrist in honesty place of William, and wreath gang ("The Them") in reside in of "The Outlaws".

The original working title for the original was "William the Antichrist".^[11] Recourse of Pratchett's works, the Johnny Maxwell series, was also divine by Just William, Pratchett stating that it was based besides loosely on an idea friendly what Just William would nominate like in a 1990s bubble with.

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