Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life

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