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>> *for the benefit of (any) younger readers Billy Bunter was a fictional rather obese attendee
>> at a minor public or prep school and was famed for pinching other boys' tuck
>> etc. He'd deny that he was in Bob Cherry's study and he never touched the
>> jam buns while he was there (Yahoo!)
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I read virtually all of them when I was at school, Herbert Vernon-Smith being my favourite. They'd never see the light of day now, they were definitely not "Woke". I doubt any LGBT+ pupils would have survived Greyfriars.
Incidently, Charles Hamilton who wrote the books under the name Frank Richards is estimated to have written over 100 million words in his career and has featured in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific writer.
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