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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England, following the death of his mother and his father's inability to look after the children. After attending St Edward's School in Oxford, his ambition to attend university was thwarted an…
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culture · Scottish writer (1859–1932) · writer · novelist · children's writer · librettist · also Kenneth Grahame, Grahame
Born 8 March 1859 · Died 6 July 1932 · Q314897
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2025· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Wind in the Willows review – Grahame classic restaged as fable for our times
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2017· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Kenneth Grahame and Complete Book Reviews
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2013· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Kenneth Grahame's 'The Reluctant Dragon' Turns 75
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1950· 2 entries
“s retirement was offered by a former colleague, W. Marston Acres, who wrote in 1950 that Grahame”
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That Grahame's resentment of the bullying manner of a director during a discussion about official business provoked him into accusing the director of being "no gentleman"
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1932· 1 entry
Died 1932-07-06.
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1910· 1 entry
The Grahames moved from Cookham Dean to a farmhouse, Boham's, in the village of Blewbury near Oxford
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1908· 2 entries
Aged forty-nine, ostensibly on grounds of ill-health
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Four months after Grahame's resignation from the Bank
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1907· 1 entry
While his parents were in Falmouth, Cornwall, included stories about a toad
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1906· 1 entry
Had taken out a lease on a house called Mayfield (later Herries Preparatory School) in Cookham Dean, close to where he grew up
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1903· 1 entry
Grahame had a narrow escape when a man entered the Bank of England and took three shots at him with a revolver, missing each time
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1900· 1 entry
With a congenital cataract that left him blind in one eye
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1898· 1 entry
The year that Grahame was appointed Secretary of the Bank of England
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1897· 1 entry
Grahame met Elspeth (Elsie) Thomson, the daughter of Robert William Thomson and sister of Courtauld Thomson
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1895· 1 entry
Is a collection of stories about four children being brought up by aunts and uncles referred to as the Olympians
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1894· 1 entry
Grahame took a lease on a house in the Kensington Crescent (now demolished) in Kensington, which he shared with another writer, Tom Greg, until the latter's marriage, and their housekeeper, Sarah Bath
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1893· 1 entry
Henley encouraged Grahame to send a collection of his short stories and essays to John Lane at his publishing house, The Bodley Head
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1884· 1 entry
Became a volunteer at Toynbee Hall, working with impoverished youths from the East End of London
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1882· 1 entry
Moved into a flat in Chelsea, where he lived on his own and caught the ferry to work
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1875· 1 entry
That Grahame's brother, Willie, died of a chest infection
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1874· 1 entry
And the sixth form prize in 1875, captaining the rugby fifteen, and becoming head boy
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1868· 1 entry
When he was nine years old, Grahame became a boarder at the recently established St Edward's School in Oxford
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1867· 1 entry
While their father resigned his post in Scotland, went to live in France and had no further contact with his children
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-03-08.
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