[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-115465-en":3,"doc-seo-115465-105":30,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":83},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":20,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":11,"is_downloadable":11,"audit_status":11,"page_count":21,"language":22,"language_code":23,"site_id":24,"html_lang":23,"table_of_contents":25,"faqs":26,"seo_title":27,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":28,"read_time":29},115465,1099523882367,"Hazel","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_9964176cb1d06d4a9deccf72a44ae3dc",1,"Story & Novel","Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl","A memoir in which Grayson Perry recounts his childhood imagination, early identity formation, and painful disruptions in family life. Guided by ceramic art and personal reinvention, he describes growing up in Chelmsford, navigating shifting homes and gender presentation, and stumbling through art college toward self-acceptance. The narrative, voiced and shaped with insights and wit by Wendy Jones, culminates in Perry stepping forward as Clare and turning dreams into lived work.","CONTENTS  \nCover  \nAbout the Book  \nAbout the Author List of Illustrations Dedication  \nTitle Page  \nEpigraph  \nPreface: Wendy Jones  \nPrologue: Grayson Perry  \n1. It’s Not Unusual  \n2. I Absolutely Couldn’t Countenance Him Losing  \n3. Utility Man  \n4.‘Very Sorry, Grayson’  \n5. A Currant Bun  \n6. Light-Blue Smocks for Pottery  \n7.‘Can I Borrow a Dress?’  \n8. Big, Stodgy, Sausagy, Scarred Fingers  \n9. Stupider than Me  \n10. I Was Dorothy, She Was the Whirlwind  \n11. Moonbow  \n12. Chelmsford Was Quite a Hot-bed of Punk  \n13. A Foreign World I Was Entering  \n14. One of those Eccentric Jobs You Only Ever Do as a Student  \n15. Repository for Keeping His Whole Self Active  \n16. ‘Don’t Copy What’s Fashionable Now, Copy What’s Going to Be Fashionable in Two Years’Time’  \n17.‘Oh. Do You Work on a Farm?’  \n18. ‘I Couldn’t Find the Light Switch in the Loo’  \n19. I Started Interacting with the Local Wildlife  \n20.‘We’ve Got to Go Somewhere Nice While We’re on Acid’  \n21. Sometimes We Were a Bit More Robust than They Expected  \n22. Pottery and Nightclubs Aren’t Easy Bedfellows  \nPicture Section  \nAcknowledgements  \nCopyright  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Book  \n‘I was a child who was a cuckoo in the nest,’ Grayson says. In his bedroom not a scrap of wallpaper showed: every inch was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic artist, he accepted the Turner Prize as his alterego Clare, wearing his best dress, with a bow in his hair: another dream made real.  \nNow he tells his own story, his voice beautifully caught by his friend, the writer Wendy Jones. Early childhood in Chelmsford, Essex is a rural Eden that ends abruptly with the arrival of the violent milkman who becomes his stepfather, leading to constant swerving between his parents’ houses, and between boys’ clothes and women’s clothes. But as Grayson enters art college and tries awkwardly to fit in – ‘I used to go to the Taboo nightclub in a black suit with skin-tight Lycra trousers and a jacket two sizes too small’ – he starts to find himself and at last, in his early twenties, he steps out as a potter and transvestite.  \nDirect and down to earth, stuffed with insights, imagination and wit, and with illustrations of Grayson’s own work, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl is both a mesmerising read and a lifeline for all young boys who hug their dreams to themselves.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAbout the Author  \nWendy Jones is a writer, a special needs teacher and founder of the underground literary club ‘Peach’.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS  \n. Divorce Present, 1992  \n. Black Dog, 2004  \nCollage from an early sketchbook  \n‘One must suffer like a woman’, early sketchbook Neo-naturist, as Burnham Wood  \nClaire in the squat  \nCollage,‘Grayson and Claire by the stream’  \n. Hot Afternoon in 75, 1999  \n. Revenge of the Alison Girls, 2000  \nIllustrations in the text  \n. Black Dog, 2004  \nGrayson and his sister, aged around seven and five From Cycles of Violence (Atlas Press, 1992)  \n. Alan Measles on his throne  \n. Assembling a Motorcycle from Memory, 2004  \n. ‘The Glider Bike Soars over the Railway Cutting’, from Murphy’s Mad Mo’bike  \n. He Came Not in Triumph, detail, 2004  \n. Look Mum, I’m a Jet Pilot, 2000  \n. Claire and Florence visit shrine to Essex Man, 1998  \n0. In the fields, from John Tarlton, Essex: A Community and its People in Pictures 1940–1960 (1988)  \n1. Refugees from Childhood, 2001  \n2. From Cycles of Violence  \n3. Golden Ghosts, 2001  \n4. I am My Own God, 1998  \n5. Model Jet Plane X92, 1999  \n6. Tomb Model, 1998  \n7. Grayson with his sister and brothers, 1974  \n8. Essex collage, 1983  \n9. Early notebook.‘Long live rock and roll’ 0.‘Why, Grayson darling …’  \n1. Mad Kid’s Bedroom Wall, 1996  \n2. Grayson on the Foundation Course, photograph by Graham Stokes  ","cbCaipVpEAMbnmJD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipVpEAMbnmJD","pdf",2214318,4,173,"English","en",105,"# About the Book\n# About the Author\n# List of Illustrations\n# Contents\n## Prologue: Grayson Perry\n## 1. It’s Not Unusual\n## 2. I Absolutely Couldn’t Countenance Him Losing\n## 3. Utility Man\n## 4. ‘Very Sorry, Grayson’\n## 5. A Currant Bun\n## 6. Light-Blue Smocks for Pottery\n## 7. ‘Can I Borrow a Dress?’\n## 8. Big, Stodgy, Sausagy, Scarred Fingers\n## 9. Stupider than Me\n## 10. I Was Dorothy, She Was the Whirlwind\n## 11. Moonbow\n## 12. Chelmsford Was Quite a Hot-bed of Punk\n## 13. A Foreign World I Was Entering\n## 14. One of those Eccentric Jobs You Only Ever Do as a Student\n## 15. Repository for Keeping His Whole Self Active\n## 16. ‘Don’t Copy What’s Fashionable Now, Copy What’s Going to Be Fashionable in Two Years’Time’\n## 17. ‘Oh. Do You Work on a Farm?’\n## 18. ‘I Couldn’t Find the Light Switch in the Loo’\n## 19. I Started Interacting with the Local Wildlife\n## 20. ‘We’ve Got to Go Somewhere Nice While We’re on Acid’\n## 21. Sometimes We Were a Bit More Robust than They Expected\n## 22. Pottery and Nightclubs Aren’t Easy Bedfellows\n# Picture Section\n# Acknowledgements\n# Copyright","[{\"question\":\"What role do illustrations play in the book?\",\"answer\":\"The book includes illustrations of Grayson’s own work, supported by a dedicated list of illustrations and an inserted picture section.\"}]","Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl | PDF",1785473749,266,{"code":4,"msg":31,"data":32},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":33,"title":13,"keywords":34,"description":14,"schema_data":35,"social_meta":78,"head_meta":80,"extra_data":82,"updated_unix":28},"portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-girl","",{"@graph":36,"@context":77},[37,53,68],{"@type":38,"itemListElement":39},"BreadcrumbList",[40,44,48,51],{"item":41,"name":42,"@type":43,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":45,"name":46,"@type":43,"position":47},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":49,"name":12,"@type":43,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":52,"name":13,"@type":43,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-girl/115465/",{"url":52,"name":13,"@type":54,"author":55,"headline":13,"publisher":57,"fileFormat":60,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":61,"datePublished":62,"encodingFormat":60,"isAccessibleForFree":63,"interactionStatistic":64},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":56},"Person",{"url":41,"name":58,"@type":59},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-08-16","2026-07-31",true,{"@type":65,"interactionType":66,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":67},"ViewAction",{"@type":69,"mainEntity":70},"FAQPage",[71],{"name":72,"@type":73,"acceptedAnswer":74},"What role do illustrations play in the book?","Question",{"text":75,"@type":76},"The book includes illustrations of Grayson’s own work, supported by a dedicated list of illustrations and an inserted picture section.","Answer","https://schema.org",{"og:url":52,"og:type":79,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":58,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":81,"canonical":52},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":84},[85,88,92,96,101,106,111,116,121,124,128],{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},90,"story-novel",{"id":47,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":89,"show_sort_weight":90,"slug":91},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":97,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":102,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":107,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":112,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":113,"show_sort_weight":114,"slug":115},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":118,"show_sort_weight":119,"slug":120},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":122,"show_sort_weight":119,"slug":123},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":126,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":127},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":129,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":46,"category_name":130,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":131},19,"General","general"]