Holy Terrors
Penelope Fitzgerald
- ‘Elizabeth’: The Author of ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’ by Karen Usborne
Bodley Head, 341 pp, £15.00, October 1986, ISBN 0 370 30887 5 - Alison Uttley: The Life of a Country Child by Denis Judd
Joseph, 264 pp, £15.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 7181 2449 9 - Richmal Crompton: The Woman behind William by Mary Cadogan
Allen and Unwin, 169 pp, £12.95, October 1986, ISBN 0 04 928054 6
These three women writers were mythmakers. Alison Uttley created Little Grey Rabbit (1929-1973), Richmal Crompton thought of Just William and kept him going for 48 years, May Annette Beauchamp invented herself as Elizabeth.
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Vol. 8 No. 21 · 4 December 1986 » Penelope Fitzgerald » Holy Terrors (print version)
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