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Kenneth gave thirty years to the Bank of London, but his heart remained on the banks of the Thames. He quietly passed away in Berkshire near the Thames at age 73. Kenneth Grahame didn’t pull The Wind in the Willows from a void. He plied his craft through 30s. He took ten years off to deal with difficulties at home.
When Alastair was about four years old, Kenneth Grahame would tell “Mouse” (his nickname for Alastair) bedtime stories about a toad. And whenever the two were apart, his father would write more tales about Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger in letters to his young son Alastair. Kenneth Grahame’s own childhood at this age however, was far from rosy.
7 de nov. de 2018 · Grahame’s only child, Alastair (known as “Mouse”), was born in May 1900, ten months after his marriage. Fathering was another narrative that ended badly when Mouse, born blind in one eye, squinting and quirky, could not adapt to the dominant group.
Kenneth Grahame, British author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the English classics of children’s literature. Its animal characters—such as Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad—combine captivating human traits with authentic animal habits. Learn more about Grahame’s life and career.
Artist: Kenneth Grahame In May 1907 Kenneth Grahame began a series of letters to his seven year-old son Alastair, known in the family as ?Mouse?. Grahame and his wife were taking a long holiday in Cornwall, and Alastair had agreed to stay behind with his nanny on condition that his father sent him regular bedtime stories by post.
9 de sept. de 2010 · Grahame wrote the first two Wind in the Willows letters which he sent to his son Alastair, while staying at the Greenbank Hotel. While he never lived here, Cornwall was to remain an important holiday destination for the author. In 1899 he'd married Elspeth Thompson, spending a week in St Ives for their honeymoon.
9 de jul. de 2009 · An illustration of “Toad’s Escape, 1927,” from the “The Annotated Wind in the Willows,” edited by Annie Gauger. Windham Payne. This scene is so charged that Ms. Gauger detects an element ...
