![]() She never married and had no children she was an aunt and a great-aunt. Later in her forties, she suffered from breast cancer and had a mastectomy. She gave up her teaching career and began to write full-time. Having contracted poliomyelitis, she was left without the use of her right leg in 1923. Cadogan (1993) shows that she was an excellent and committed teacher at both schools. In 1914, she returned to St Elphin's as a Classics mistress and later, at age 27, moved to Bromley High School in southeast London where she began her writing in earnest. ![]() She took part in the Women's Suffrage movement. Crompton graduated in 1914 with a BA honours degree in Classics (II class). In order to further 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 later moved with the school to a new location in Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire in 1904. ![]() Richmal Crompton attended St Elphin's Boarding School for the daughters of the clergy, originally based in Warrington, Lancashire. ![]()
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