Stephen Lawrence

Standard Name: Lawrence, Stephen

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Maggie Gee
Like her first novel to see print, Gee says, this one took seven years to find a publisher. Speaking about it at a date fairly early in its long quest for print, she mentioned that...
Material Conditions of Writing Malorie Blackman
Blackman was angry when she sat down to begin Noughts and Crosses, having just watched a TV documentary about the Stephen Lawrence case.
Rustin, Susanna. “Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman: ‘I’m looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers’”. guardian.com, 5 June 2013.
(5 June 2013)
In 2011 a simplified version of this book...
Textual Features Winsome Pinnock
The play evokes memories of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence 's death at the hands of white thugs in 1993, but Pinnock says she based her story on a different episode: the killing of a...

Timeline

22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...

National or international item

22 April 1993

Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence , and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...

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