Billy Bunter

William George Bunter (a.k.a. Billy Bunter, the "Fat Owl of the Remove"), is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He featured originally in stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys weekly story paper The Magnet first published in 1908, and has since appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.

Bibliography

• Beal, George (1977), The Magnet Companion, London: Howard Baker.
• Cadogan, Mary (1988), Frank Richards - The Chap Behind The Chums, Middlesex: Viking.
• Fayne, Eric; Jenkins, Roger (1972), A History of The Magnet and The Gem, Kent: Museum Press.
• Hamilton Wright, Una; McCall, Peter (2006), The Far Side of Billy Bunter: the Biography of Charles Hamilton, London: Friars Library.
• Lofts, W.O.G.; Adley, D.J. (1975), The World of Frank Richards, London: Howard Baker.
• McCall, Peter (1982), The Greyfriars Guide, London: Howard Baker.
• Orwell, George (1940), "Boys Weeklies", Horizon, archived from the original on 2008-12-19, retrieved 2012-01-16.
• Richards, Frank (1940), "Frank Richards Replies to Orwell" (PDF), Horizon.
• Richards, Frank (1962), The Autobiography of Frank Richards, London: Skilton.
• Richards, Jeffery (1991), Happiest Days: Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Turner, E.S. (1975), Boys will be Boys – 3rd edition, London: Penguin.

Other websites

• Friardale Collection of Charles Hamilton material: Novels, story papers, etc.
• The Magnet 1908-1940 Original Greyfriars stories: facsimile editions of The Magnet
• Collecting Books and Magazines Detailed article
• Greyfriars, The Magnet & Billy Bunter Archived 2006-04-03 at the Wayback Machine Facts and Figures
• Greyfriars Index Detailed listing of Hamilton's work
• The Friars Club Archived 2012-12-20 at Archive.today Enthusiasts’ Club
• The Magnet Detailed site about The Magnet
• Bunterzone Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine Enthusiasts’ site
• Index of Boys Weeklies