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Notes
CHAPTER 1
1 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Marginalia’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), pp 76–7.
2 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Departure’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 173.
3 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Marginalia’, p 78.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Saga of the Seas’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 136.
5 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Saturnia Regna’, New Review, vol 14, no 82, March 1896.
6 Ibid.
7 Grahame, Kenneth, review of Evelyn Sharp’s All the Way to Fairyland, Academy, 18 December 1897.
8 Grahame, Kenneth, introduction to Sanger, George, Seventy Years a Showman (J. M. Dent, London, 1926), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.
9 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 212.
10 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Prologue: The Olympians’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 4.
11 Grahame, Kenneth, introduction to A Hundred Fables of Aesop, in Haining, Peter, intro, Paths to the River Bank: The Origin of The Wind in the Willows (Blandford Press reprint, London, 1988), p 61.
12 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Saturnia Regna’, New Review, vol 14, no 82, March 1896.
13 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Orion’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 187; ‘The Magic Ring’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 118.
14 Chalmers, Patrick R., Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work (Methuen, London, 1933), p 77.
15 Ibid., p 76.
16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Saga of the Seas’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 140.
17 Ibid.
18 See Carpenter, Humphrey, Secret Gardens: A Study of the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (Unwin paperback, London, 1985), p 117.
19 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Prologue: The Olympians’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 4.
20 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 2.
21 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 39.
22 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 5.
23 Ibid., p 4.
24 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Rail’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 21.
25 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 169; on this connection, see Green, Peter, Kenneth Grahame 1859–1932: A Study of his Life, Work and Times (John Murray, London, 1959), p 11.
26 Prince, Alison, Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wild Wood (Allison & Busby, London, 1984), p 7.
27 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 4.
28 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 7.
29 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Mountain Stream’ (poem), Hull Weekly News, 15 April 1905 – see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (146).
30 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Loafing’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 45.
CHAPTER 2
1 Grahame, Kenneth, introduction to Sanger, George, Seventy Years a Showman (J. M. Dent, London, 1926), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.
2 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Departure’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 169.
3 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit.,
p 174.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Rail’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 26.
5 Kenneth Graham to Kitty Cheatham, undated letter, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (16); ‘The Romance of the Rail’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 28.
6 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Departure’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 175.
7 Hamilton, Clayton, ‘A Personal Appreciation of Kenneth Grahame’, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (162).
8 Green, Peter, op. cit., p 137.
9 Graham, Eleanor, Kenneth Grahame (The Bodley Head, London, 1963), p 12.
10 See Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 8; Green, Peter, op cit., p 17.
11 Green, Peter, op cit., p 23 and p 27.
12 See Graham, Eleanor, op cit., p 14.
13 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 271.
14 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Magic Ring’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 120; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 70, p 132, p 25.
15 Green, Peter, op cit., p 20.
16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Sawdust and Sin’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 25.
17 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 265.
18 Quoted in Graham, Eleanor, op cit., p 14.
19 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Departure’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 171.
20 Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.
21 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 146.
22 See Green, Peter, op cit., pp 17–18.
23 Stevenson, Robert Louis, Virginibus Puerisque (1881, reprint Penguin 1946), p 69.
24 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Rail’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 27.
25 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Magic Ring’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 118.
26 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Prologue: The Olympians’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), pp 3–5.
27 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Justifiable Homicide’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 147.
28 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Falling Out’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 80.
CHAPTER 3
1 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Lusisti Satis’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 80.
2 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 29.
3 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Twenty-First of October’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 93.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 7.
5 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Cheap Knowledge’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 59.
6 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Spell of Oxford’, July 1932, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (63–77).
7 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Lusisti Satis’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 86.
8 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fairy Wicket’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 158.
9 Ibid.
10 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Spell of Oxford’, July 1932, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (63–77).
11 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Alarums and Excursions’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 18.
12 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fairy Wicket’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 158.
13 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Spell of Oxford’, July 1932, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (63–77).
14 Hunter, Nicola, & Burkey, Neil, St Edward’s: 150 Years (Third Millennium Information, 2013), p 13.
15 Green, Peter, op cit., p 94.
16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Orion’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 188.
17 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Lusisti Satis’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 88.
18 Ibid., p 89.
19 Hunter & Burkey, op cit., p 13; Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Marginalia’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 78; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (94).
20 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 33.
21 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 131.
22 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Twenty-First of October’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 93; ibid., ‘Lusisti Satis’, p 90.
23 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Spell of Oxford’, July 1932, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (63–77).
24 Ibid.
25 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 23.
26 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.
27 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 211.
28 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Cheap Knowledge’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 56.
29 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., pp 26–7; Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Eternal Whither’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 91.
30 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Spell of Oxford’, July 1932, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (63–77).
31 Green, Peter, Beyond the Wild Wood: The World of Kenneth Grahame (Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1982), p 38.
32 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Marginalia’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 79.
33 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 37.
34 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 135; ibid., ‘Dies Irae’, p 105.
35 Kenneth Grahame to Methuen & Co, 24 December 1931, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (194).
36 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 135.
37 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., pp 30–31.
CHAPTER 4
1 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 356, n 8.
2 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Eternal Whither’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 90.
3 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 28.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The White Poppy’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 125.
5 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Road’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 16.
6 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Justifiable Homicide’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 151–2.
7 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Dies Irae’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 103.
8 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Saturnia Regna’, New Review, vol 14, no 82, March 1896.
9 Ibid.
10 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 229.
11 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Finding of the Princess’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 23.
12 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 264.
13 See Kuznets, Lois R., Kenneth Grahame (Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1987), p 27.
14 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Inner Ear’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 89.
15 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Cheap Knowledge’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 57–8.
16
Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., pp 129–36.
17 Ibid., p 52.
18 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 61.
19 Ibid., p 201.
20 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Non Libri Sed Liberi’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 32.
21 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Sawdust and Sin’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 25.
22 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 233.
23 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Secret Drawer’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 66.
CHAPTER 5
1 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Eternal Whither’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 86.
2 Paterson, Michael, Inside Dickens’ London (David & Charles, London, 2011), p 98.
3 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Eternal Whither’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 85; ibid., ‘A Bohemian in Exile’, pp 134–6; ‘Long Odds’, The Yellow Book, July 1895; ‘Orion’, pp 188–9.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Headswoman’, The Yellow Book, October 1894.
5 Kenneth Grahame to Curtis Brown, 11 November 1928, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (136).
6 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Rural Pan’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 65.
7 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 272.
8 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Inner Ear’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 89.
9 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 61.
10 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 59.
11 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 47.
12 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 129.
13 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Road’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 16.
14 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 64, p 44.
15 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 80.
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