![]() ![]() She gave up her teaching career and began to write full-time. Health though was an issue and in 1923 after contracting poliomyelitis, she was left without the use of her right leg. That same year she returned to St Elphin’s as a Classics mistress and then three years later to Bromley High School in southeast London where she also began her writing in earnest. She was also an active member of the Women's Suffrage movement. ![]() In 1914 Richmal graduated with a BA honours degree in Classics (II class). To pursue her chosen career as a schoolteacher, she won a scholarship to Royal Holloway College, part of the University of London in Englefield Green, Surrey. ![]() She attended St Elphin's Boarding School, originally based in Warrington, Lancashire and later moved with the school to a new location in Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire in 1904. Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in Bury, Lancashire, on November 15th, 1890. ![]()
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