Robert J. Kirkpatrick

Robert J Kirkpatrick is a researcher and writer on boys' fiction.

Robert J. Kirkpatrick
Born	(1953-11-02) November 2, 1953 Stourbridge, West Midlands
Nationality	British
Occupation	Researcher and writer
Years active	1990-
Known for	Writing on Boy's Fiction
Notable work	From the penny dreadful to the ha'penny dreadfuller

He was born in Stourbridge, on 2 November 1953 and attended grammar school in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He worked as a benefit officer for the Notting Hill Housing Trust from 1990, and wrote some best practice guides for Housing Associations.[1]

Kirkpatrick has written extensively on boy's fiction and is the Secretary of the Children's Books History Society, the British branch of the Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections[2] of children's books at the Toronto Public Library. He has written several short monographs for the society.

One recent work, Henty Goes to School: School Life in the Novels of G.A. Henty[3] Kirkpatrick introduced the topic in the context of Henty's own schooling and then interposed passages about school life from Henty's books with commentary. G. A. Henty never wrote a full book set in a school setting.[4]

Kirkpatrick's most recent work has concentrate on illustrations and he has produced two books on illustrations. He has contributed a whole series of thorough and detailed biographies of illustrators of children's books on the Bear Alley blog.[5][6][7][8][9]

Works

Publications by Robert J. Kirkpatrick (BL refers to British Library)

No	Year	Title	Other Author/s	Pages	Publisher	ISBN	BL	Source of data, if other than BL
1	1990	Bullies, beaks and flannelled fools : an annotated bibliography of boys' school fiction, 1742-2000		120	Author, London	0951637304	Yes
2	1999	Housing Benefit: A Good Practice Guide for Housing Associations			National Housing Federation, London		No	Encyclopedia.com[1]
3	1999	Housing Benefit Overpayments: A Good Practice Guide			National Housing Federation, London		No	Encyclopedia.com[1]
4	2000	The encyclopedia of boys' school stories	Rosemary Auchmuty, Joy Wotton	385	Ashgate, Aldershot	9780754600831	Yes
5	2001	Bullies, beaks and flannelled fools : an annotated bibliography of boys' school fiction, 1742–2000, 2nd ed.		337	Author, London	0951637312	Yes
6	2001	Victorian boys' school stories in books and periodicals : a bibliography	Michael Rupert Taylor	107	Author, London		Yes
7	2002	A Guide to Housing Benefit Overpayments			Notting Hill Housing Trust, London		No	Encyclopedia.com[1]
8	2006	Before Tom Brown : the birth and development of the boys' school story		16	Children's Books History Society, London		Yes
9	2010	The three lives of Bernard Heldmann		32	Children's Books History Society, London		Yes
10	2013	From the penny dreadful to the ha'penny dreadfuller : a bibliographic history of the boys' periodical in Britain 1762-1950		528	The British Library, London	9780712309547	Yes
11	2013	Wild boys in the dock : Victorian juvenile literature and juvenile crime		33	Children's Books History Society, London		Yes
12	2016	Pennies, profits and poverty : a biographical directory of wealth and want in Bohemian Fleet Street		550	Hanwell, London	9781518690990	Yes
13	2016	Henty goes to school : school life in the novels of G.A. Henty, edited with an introduction by Robert J. Kirkpatrick	G. A. Henty	264	CreateSpace (Amazon self-publishing)	9781530447312	Yes
14	2017	Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby and the Yorkshire schools, fact v fiction		375	Mosaic, Middleton-in-Teesdale	9780993597053	Yes
15	2019	Picturing Tom Brown: How Artists Have Illustrated "Tom Brown's Schooldays"		90	Author, London	9781072137566	No	Bear Alley[10]
16	2019	The Men Who Drew for Boys (and Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books 1844 – 1970		559	Author, London	9781796820980	No	Bear Alley[11]

References

1. Encyclopedia.com (2020-01-28). "Kirkpatrick, Robert J, 1953-". Encyclopedia.com: Contemporary Authors. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
2. "Home". Children's Books History Society. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
3. Kirkpatrick, Robert J.; Henty, G. A. Henty Goes to School: School Life in the Novels of G.A. Henty. Createspace.
4. Kirkpatrick, Robert J.; Henty, G. A. Henty Goes to School: School Life in the Novels of G.A. Henty. Createspace. p. 1.
5. Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019-05-12). "G. W. Goss". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
6. Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019-05-05). "Thomas Henry". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
7. Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019-04-28). "Frank Wright". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
8. Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019-04-21). "S van Abbe". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
9. Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019-04-14). "Joseph Abbey". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
10. Steve (2019-10-11). "Comic Cuts - 11 October 2019". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
11. Steve (2019-06-12). "The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls)". Bear Alley. Retrieved 2020-02-08.

External links

• Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books
• Children's Book History Society
• Bear Alley Blog