![]() ![]() ![]() She was publishing ‘Just William’ stories from 1919. Following the death of her father, Richmal then followed her sister and mother to live in Bromley, Kent, in 1917. Following her early life in Bury, Lancashire and life as a student at Royal Holloway, she became a teacher at St Elphins School in Warrington, where she had been a pupil. How can the story of her life grasp the scope and richness of her writing and bring her to life in a way that challenges some of the myths about both her life and writing? Facts about her birth and death say something about the period in which she lived, but what can they say about the characters she brings to life in her books? True, she writes about the world she knows. She was writing until the very end of her life. Richmal was born on 15 November 1890 and died in January 1969. I am currently working on Richmal Crompton Lamburn’s biography, which is due for publication in 2022, the hundredth anniversary of the first Just William collection. ![]()
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