A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE NON-DRAMATIC WORK OF

SUE TOWNSEND

Jurgen Willems

Verhandeling  voorgelegd  aan de Faculteit der Letteren en Wijsbegeerte,
groep Germaanse Filologie,
voor het verkrijgen van de graad van licentiaat

 Universiteit Gent

academiejaar 1992-1993

Promotor: Prof. Dr. N. ROWAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

PREFACE

1. HER LIFE

2. HER WORK

          2.1.     List of her works

          2.2.     Background information and plot-summaries of her Mole novels

                     2.2.1. Genesis of "The Secret Diary"

                     2.2.2. Further development of the Adrian Mole phenomenon

                     2.2.3. Plot summary of "The Secret Diary"

                     2.2.4. Plot summary of "The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

                     2.2.5. Plot summary of "True Confessions of Adrian Mole"

                     2.2.6. Plot summary of "Adrian Mole and The Small Amphibians"

          2.3.     Why Townsend chose to write the story of Adrian Mole in diary form

          2.4.     Plot summary of "Rebuilding Coventry"

          2.5.   Plot summary of "True Confessions of Susan Lilian Townsend" and True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts"

          2.6.     Mr Bevan's Dream

          2.7.     Plot summary of "The Queen and I"

                     2.7.1. Comment

                     2.7.2. Genesis of "The Queen and I"

                     2.7.3. Reception of "The Queen and I"

          2.8.     Tradition in which Townsend's work

          2.9.     Townsend's personal life reflected in her work

          2.10.   Townsend's style

          2.11.   Themes, motifs and central issues in the work of Sue Townsend

          2.12.   The popularity of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole Cre­ati­on and her latest novel "The Queen and I"

                     2.12.1.The facts of the success

                     2.12.2.The reasons for the success

          2.13.   Townsend's humour

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGHRAPY

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