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  Richmal Crompton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton Lamburn (November 15, 1890–January 11, 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William short stories.
Crompton attended schools in Lancashire and Derbyshire, including St Elphin’s, a boarding school for daughters of the clergy in Warrington, Lancashire, and later won a scholarship to study at the Royal Holloway College in London, receiving a BA Honours degree in Classics.
Crompton's fiction is largely centred around family and social life, dwelling on the constraints that they place on individuals while also nurturing them.
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 English author biographies : Just William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton's William Brown is the one of the two most famous schoolboy in English literature.
Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in 1890 at Bury in Lancashire.
Crompton taught school and was a keen observer of the foibles of small children.
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 The Lost Club
Richmal Crompton, creator of William Brown, wrote forty-one books for adults, but these are largely ignored today while the ‘pot boiler’ William still thrives after eighty years and continues to delight generations of children.
Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born on 15 November 1890 on the outskirts of Bury, Lancashire, the second child of a clergyman, the Revd Edward John Sewell Lamburn, and his wife Clara (née Crompton).
Richmal was educated at St Elphin’s, a boarding school for daughters of the clergy in Warrington, Lancashire.
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 Persephone Books - Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton is less well known for her novels for adults, being more famous for being the author of the William books: the creator of the lively, cheeky, pugnacious, yet oddly wise anti-hero of 345 short stories for children collected into thirty books written between 1922 and 1964.
A favourite theme of Richmal Crompton's is how families can entrap as well as sustain; another is adult refusal to treat children as people, to talk to them as equals, and the child's consequent inability to see grown-ups as anything but ciphers preoccupied only with cleanliness, social status and regular meals.
The fabric used for Richmal Crompton's Family Roundabout is an example of the 'peasant-art' style, popular in the 1940s, and of the revival of figurative woven fabric.
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 Encyclopedia: Richmal Crompton
Just William is the first book of childrens short stories about William Brown written by Richmal Crompton, published in 1922.
Crompton attended schools in Lancashire and Darbyshire, including St Elphin’s, a boarding school for daughters of the clergy in Warrington, Lancashire and later won a scholarship to study at the Royal Holloway College in London, receiving a BA Honours degree in Classics.
Crompton's best known books are the William stories, about a mischevious 11-year old schoolboy and his band of friends, known as the Outlaws.
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 The Just William Books of Richmal Crompton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in 1890 in on November 15 1890 in Bury, Lancashire.
Richmal Crompton's first professionally published story appeared in the Girl's Own Paper in 1918.
Richmal Crompton's home was in Bromley, Kent, and this plaque may be seen at 9 Cherry Orchard Road where she lived with her mother from 1917 to 1928.
www.sharpsoftware.co.uk /william/richmal.htm   (223 words)

  
 Críticas y reseñas :: LA MORADA MALIGNA :: [Richmal Crompton]
Este último asegura que debe en gran medida a Richmal Crompton haberse dedicado a la literatura, y aunque sólo sea por eso, ya merece la autora británica un mínimo de atención, al menos por parte de los fans de Marías.
Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) se hizo famosa con las aventuras de Guillermo Brown, nacido en 1922, y protagonista junto a su pandilla de decenas y decenas de libros.
Richmal Crompton teje sus páginas con una mezcla brillante de ensoñaciones líricas a lo Katherine Mansfield y una soltura notable para el diálogo casamentero digna de Jane Austen.
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 Crompton Crompton Corporation Is A Marketer Of Specialty Chemicals, Polymer Products, And Processing Equip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Samuel Crompton, the son of a small farmer, was born in Firwood, Bolton.
Brook Crompton is a leading manufacturer of ac electric motors and dc electric motors, high efficiency W and WP motors, and industrial, variable speed motors.
Bolton's Samuel Crompton 1753-1827, inventor of the spinning mule Samuel Crompton born December 3rd 1753 on a farm at 10, Firwood Fold, to George and Betty (nee Elizabeth Holt of Turton) Crompton, was the inventor of the Spinning.
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 BBC 7 - Drama - Just William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Crompton herself was a classics mistress at a girls’ school in Bromley, Kent and, while the stories are instantly accessible to children, adults can derive pleasure from the literary and classical allusions in the books.
When Miss Drew, his class teacher, keeps William behind in class Crompton notes “There was a faint perfume about her, and William the devil-may-care pirate and robber-chief, the stern despiser of all things effeminate, felt the first dart of the malicious blind god.”
Richmal Crompton was struck by polio shortly after she began teaching and she devoted herself to writing full time, producing over 400 William stories, collected into 38 books.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbc7/drama/progpages/justwilliam.shtml   (296 words)

  
 Richmal Crompton Book from Books.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton's "William" is known even to those who have never read the books featuring his anarchic exploits.
So shy of fame was she that, owing to her unusual Christian name, many people thought she was, in fact, a man. In this biography, Mary Cadogan provides a portrait of a witty and talented writer, and a celebration of her works.
Fully illustrated with pictures of Richmal and her family - including the brother, nephew and great-nephew who helped inspire William's antics - and the timeless original pictures of William by Thomas Henry.
www.books.co.uk /Richmal_Crompton/0750932856.html   (170 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Just William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Crompton writes with a wonderful irony and wit that hits the target every time.
You follow William from the 20s, through the war and beyond, he is there when tv is invented, he is there all through it, but he is always 11 years old.
He and his mates never change and never lose the will to enjoy life and laugh at problems Comfort reading of the highest order, kids today with their Harry Potter and Playstations should not be kept away from excellent writing like this.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0333534085   (641 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Surveys and analyzes Crompton's work, describing it as "marked by a keen understanding of a child's mind, and by an awareness of the beautiful sound of the English language.
CROMPTON, RICHMAL [Richmal Crompton Lamburn] (1890-1969) A707 CADOGAN, MARY, and CRAIG, PATRICIA.
"In William, Richmal Crompton lumped together all the child characteristics which adults find most abhorrent, thereby assuring his appeal for a generation of English children." Discusses the William books and William's female counterpart, Jane, in the series of Jane books by Evadne Price.
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 Manchester Authors, Writers and Poets of Greater Manchester including John Collier, known as Tim Bobbin, C P Scott, ...
Born on the 15th of November 1890 in Bury, the second of three children to the Reverend Edward John Sewell Lamburn and his wife Clara Crompton.
Richmal inherited the double surname (Crompton-Lamburn) from both parents, though professionally she only used the Crompton part.
Her father was a teacher at Bury Grammar School, and the family lived in the borough for many years, though Richmal attended schools in Derbyshire and Warrington, before winning a scholarship to the Royal Holloway College in London in 1911.
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 Just William - Richmal Crompton - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
‘Just William’; was the first of Richmal Crompton’s 38 titles published about the irrepressible schoolboy scruff between 1922 and 1970, the year after her death.
Growing up in the 50’s without the universal ‘benefits’ of television, computers and on-tap entertainment, most of my childhood was spent out of doors – playing football in the street, cricket on the green, fishing for sticklebacks in the brook at the back of...
The adventures of William Brown, mischievous school-boy and timeless hero of every rebel with a cause, were chronicled by Richmal Crompton between 1922 and 1969.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/just-william-richmal-crompton   (274 words)

  
 Richmal Crompton Bibliography
RICHMAL CROMPTON Lamburn, the daughter of a schoolteacher-curate, went to a Derbyshire boarding school, to which she returned as a teacher in 1914 after having read classics at Royal Holloway College.
For the next 45 years she was always at work on two books simultaneously, one for children (generally a William book) and one for adults.
In Richmal Crompton's lifetime thirty collections of William stories sold over eight million copies; but she once hinted that her 'Frankenstein's Monster' had ambushed recognition for her forty serious novels, of which FAMILY ROUNDABOUT (1948) is perhaps the best.
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 Richmal Crompton Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 RICHMAL CROMPTON and William
Born Richmal Crompton Lamburn on November 15 1890 in Bury, Lancashire, England this author became famous for her 38 books featuring that quintessential English schoolboy William Brown.
Richmal had started out as a teacher and at this time was a classics mistress at Bromley High School Kent.
Richmal's first William book appeared in 1922 and she continued to write of his adventures until her death in January 1969.
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 Derbyshire's Literary Connections
Richmal Crompton Lamburn, author, was born on 15 November 1890 on the outskirts of Bury, Lancashire, the second child of a clergyman, the Revd Edward John Sewell Lamburn, and his wife Clara (née Crompton).
After the building was condemned, the school moved to Darley Dale in Derbyshire in 1904.
She lost the use of her right leg and remained lame for the rest of her life.
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Martin Jarvis 'the wizard of the talking book' has made the voices of Richmal Crompton's scruffy hero William and his...
Martin Jarvis 'the wizard of the talking book' has made the voices of Richmal Crompton's scruffy hero William and his gang of outlaws his own.
Now as famous on radio and audio as they are in print the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting both young and old for decades.
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 "william"htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
will be fondly remembered for his portrayal of Richmal Crompton's lovable schoolboy, William.
This was the beginning of a writer/illustrator relationship with Richmal Crompton that was to last for 43 years.
He would however consult her if the publisher's wanted a storyline to go in a direction that was not typical of the William character.
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 Literary Forums - Just William books by Richmal Crompton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
My first impression of Richmal Crompton books is when I picked up the title "William The Fourth" when I was still at school.
Full of humour, warmth and wit, Richmal Crompton is able to visualize the life of a healthy, fun-loving and mischievous boy with great talent.
Also I love Richmal Crompton's wit and the way she makes fun of all those lovely social institutions like the WI.
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 Station Information - Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton Lamburn (November 15 1890 - January 11 1969) was a British writer, most famous for her Just William short stories.
Crompton tried several times to reformulate William for other audiences.
William and Air Raid Precautions, 1939 (also published as William's Bad Resolutions, 1956)
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 English boys clothes -- literature novels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Richmal Crompton makes more use of clothing than perhaps any other author writing about boys.
He was neat and tidy and methoducal and clean and only spoke when soken to and did what he was told.
As Crompton explains, "Georgie would never fight back because it might dirty his suit, and any personal attacks upon Georgie (however mild) were faitfully reported by thr attacked in person to the parent of the attacker." [Crompton]
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 The Just William Books of Richmal Crompton
Richmal Crompton's brilliant, timeless stories have delighted several generations of readers, both children and adults alike.
In addition to the wonderful adventure, fun, and humour of the books, they provide a unique portrait of the changing landscape of a typical English village (William's home) during those fifty years.
Totally unconnected with Richmal Crompton, but Sharp Software have developed a useful memory improvement software program called Total Recall.
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 Allen and Unwin -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martin Jarvis reads a choice selection of the adventures of the irrepressible and ageless schoolboy, William Brown.
The adventures of the irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown have been delighting young and old for decades.
With his friends Ginger, Douglas and Henry (The Outlaws) and the angelic thorn-in-his-side lisping Violet Elizabeth Bott, William has joined the literary immortals.
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 Richmal Crompton -Just William
Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in 1890 in Lancashire.
There are a number in the UK, unfortunately not many are on the Internet.
is probably one of the premier dealers in Crompton and is online, he issues a regular catalogue on the web and even sends you an email to let you know when the catalogues has been updated.
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 eBay.co.uk - by richmal, Children's Books, Audio Books, Antiquarian Books Pre-1940 items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
WILLIAM AND THE MASKED RANGER by Richmal Crompton 
WILLIAM and the POP SINGERS by Richmal Crompton d/w 1st 
william and the space animal, by richmal crompton 
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