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Charles Hamilton (writer)

Mangled English by Indian prince Hurree Jamset Ram Singh; Billy Bunter Expelled, p. 8 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lUEqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22frank+richards%22+%22billy+bunter%22&dq=%22frank+richards%22+%22billy+bunter%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TlIET7mGBobd8QPCta3FAQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAQ

“The business of a boys' author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible.”

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Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)

“A somewhat short junior, with a broad, pleasant face and an enormous pair of spectacles”

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The first mention of Bunter
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)

“The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they don't understand.”

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Explaining why he used many different pseudonyms.
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)

“If there is a Tchekov among my readers, I fervently hope that the effects of the Magnet wil be to turn him into a Bob Cherry.”

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Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Charles Hamilton" (pages 235-7)

“Foreigners are funny”

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Charles Hamilton (writer)

Responding to George Orwell's complaint that Hamilton assumed that foreigners are comic.
Oxford Companion to Children's Literature: "Billy Bunter" (pages 62-4)