William is forced to spend his precious half-holiday looking after a baby but decides to kidnap him and bring him to the Outlaws. The Outlaws – The first-ever William story.William Joins the Band of Hope – William is forced to join the Temperance movement along with the other Outlaws, but manages to turn the first meeting into a punch-up.A Question of Grammar – William's wilful misunderstanding of a double negative leads him to throw a wild party in his parents' absence.The Show – The Outlaws put on an animal show in William's room for money and finally decide to use his sleeping Aunt Emily as an exhibit.
The Fall of the Idol – William has a crush on his teacher Miss Drew, but eventually discovers she has "feet of clay".He gets a job working as a servant in an upper-class household. William Below Stairs – William runs away from home after reading a book about a boy who ran away and made a fortune in gold.William the Intruder – William steals the attentions of his brother's new girlfriend.
On his way home he is obsessed with acting out what he has seen.
William Goes to the Pictures – William's aunt gives him a shilling, so he buys sweets and goes to the cinema. The book contains the following short stories: The William stories first appeared in Home magazine and Happy Mag. Just William is also sometimes used as a title for the series of books as a whole, and is also the name of various television, film and radio adaptations of the books. The book was the first in the series of William Brown books which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations. Her first, **Thomas - A Little Boy Who Would Grow Up, was published in Girl’s Own Paper in 1918 under the pseudonym Richmal Crompton – used so that the school’s Headmistress wouldn’t rumble her for earning an additional income (perhaps she did have a rebellious streak after all).Just William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. It was while teaching at Bromley High School in Kent that Crompton started submitting short stories to magazines. Her experiences of secret societies, school plays, matronly teachers and picnics surely seeped into William’s world – even if in her tales they were often ruined by her young charge. This love of learning continued throughout Richmal’s formal education, first at St Elphin’s School and then Royal Holloway College. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)īorn Richmal Crompton Lamburn on 15 th November 1890 in Bury, her father Revd Edward Lamburn taught at the local school and continued lessons at home for his three children – Gwen, Richmal and Jack. British author Richmal Crompton (1890 - 1969) famous for her series of 'Just William' stories for children, January 1948.
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