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26 de nov. de 2010 · Cold relationship: Kenneth Grahame often ignored pleas to visit his son Alastair at boarding school - and never recovered when he committed suicide aged just 19. And yet, look closer at...
Grahame's son Alastair flourished at The Old Malthouse School but went on to have brief, and less happy, experiences at Rugby School and Eton College before having lessons with a private tutor to prepare for the University of Oxford.
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- The Wind in the Willows (1908)
- Fiction
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.
In 1899, at age 40, Kenneth Grahame married Elspeth Thomson, the daughter of Robert William Thomson. The next year they had their only child, a boy named Alastair (nicknamed "Mouse"). He was born premature, blind in one eye, and plagued by health problems throughout his life.
- Kenneth Grahame
- Children's novel
- 1908
- 8 October 1908
Kenneth Grahame’s letters to his son, Alastair, on which the story is based, are in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and Grahame is buried in Oxford’s Holywell Cemetery. Where it came from.
Alastair finalmente se suicidó en un tren que iba hacia Oxford, dos días antes de su vigésimo cumpleaños, el 7 de mayo de 1920. 4 En lo que respecta a Kenneth Grahame, el fallecimiento de Alastair fue registrado como accidental. Kenneth Grahame falleció en Pangbourne, Berkshire en 1932.
6 de ene. de 2021 · Alastair Grahame was four years old when his father Kenneth — then a secretary at the Bank of England — began inventing bedtime stories about the reckless ruffian, Mr Toad, and his...
