Richmal Crompton, author of Just William : a literary life
著者
書誌事項
Richmal Crompton, author of Just William : a literary life
（Literary lives）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
大学図書館所蔵 全2件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
1. Introduction PART I (1890-19112
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's Fiction
PART II (1911-1923)
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
PART III (1924-1938)
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
PART IV (1939-1945)
15. On the Home Front with William and Richmal
16. William, Flawed Hero
PART V (1946-1969)
17. William Becomes a Postwar Hero on TV and Radio
18. Richmal Crompton in Her Own Words
PART VI (Fans at Home and Abroad)
19. William, At Home and Abroad
20. Writers' Homage to Crompton and William
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