{"title":"Books by Jane McVeigh","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9783030965105","title":"Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichmal Crompton, Author of \u003c\/i\u003eJust William\u003ci\u003e: A Literary Life\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the first two William books, \u003ci\u003eJust William\u003c\/i\u003e (1922) and \u003ci\u003eMore William\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310525755765,"sku":"9783030965105","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783030965105_c7a71ac8-9c14-46b3-98d6-1415b9ddf8f9.jpg?v=1786031598"},{"product_id":"in-collaboration-with-british-literary-biography","title":"In Collaboration with British Literary Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about one person's reading and what has been learnt about how the lives of other people, particularly authors, have been written in British literary biographies over the last fifty years. It is less interested in what happened in the lives of the people described in these biographies, and more concerned with how these stories have been told. It aims to have a conversation with British biographers, particularly Michael Holroyd, Richard Holmes, Hermione Lee and Claire Tomalin, to make their voices heard, to set them talking. It understands biography as an ongoing collaboration, not only between biographers and their subjects, but between biographers and their readers. This is also a study of haunting, in which we haunt the lives of others to help us come to a better understanding of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492166574453,"sku":"9783319863948","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783319863948.jpg?v=1786528990"},{"product_id":"adrian-mole-cest-moi","title":"Adrian Mole, C'est Moi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e of Sue Townsend, the brilliant and satirical mind behind the iconic teenage diarist Adrian Mole.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSue Townsend grew up in working class Leicestershire and left school at 14. In the 70s she was a young single mother working in youth and community services, writing on the side and hiding it in secret for years, always nervous about how it would be received.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe went on to become the bestselling author of the 1980s, and one of the most beloved comic observers of modern British society – and much of what she said remains relevant today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAdrian Mole, C’est Moi\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane McVeigh uncovers who Sue Townsend the writer really was, and the extent to which she poured herself into her famous creation, Adrian Mole. Drawing on the humourous, self-deprecating and fiercely observant tone of Townsend’s own writing, this book weaves together previously unpublished material with the fictional, hilariously neurotic world of Adrian Mole, and places Townsend where she belongs – as one of Britain’s greatest satirists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503582781813,"sku":"9781399429382","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jane-mcveigh.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}