Eternal Boy

by Dennison, Matthew;

  16 See Lerer, Seth, ‘Style and the Mole: Domestic Aesthetics in “The Wind in the Willows”’, The Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol 43, no 2 (Summer 2009), p 59.

  17 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Dies Irae’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 105.

  18 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (45).

  19 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Cheap Knowledge’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 55.

  20 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 87.

  21 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 82.

  22 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 88.

  23 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 7.

  24 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Loafing’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 49; Smith, Kathryn A., ‘Kenneth Grahame and the Singing Willows’, Elementary English, vol 45, no 8 (December 1968), p 1031.

  25 Grahame, Kenneth, introduction to Sanger, George, Seventy Years a Showman (J. M. Dent, London, 1926), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.

  26 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Loafing’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 52.

  27 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Bohemian in Exile’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), pp 137–8.

  28 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 93.

  29 Ibid., p 94.

  30 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Of Smoking’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 109, p 103.

  31 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 86.

  32 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 66.

  33 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 37.

  34 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 88; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 110.

  35 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Secret Drawer’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 67.

  36 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 76.

  37 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Secret Drawer’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), pp 66–7.

  38 Ibid., p 67.

  39 Forster, E. M., The Longest Journey (Edward Arnold, London, 1907, reprint Penguin, London, 1983), p 147.

  40 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Harvesting’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 41.

  41 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 127.

  42 Ibid.

  43 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Saturnia Regna’, New Review, vol 14, no 82, March 1896.

  CHAPTER 6

  1 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 249.

  2 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Roman Road’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 58.

  3 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 234.

  4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Twenty-First of October’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 96; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 250.

  5 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 214.

  6 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 83.

  7 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 226–7.

  8 Grahame, Georgina, In a Tuscan Garden (The Bodley Head, London, 1903).

  9 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘By a Northern Furrow’, St James’s Gazette, 21 December 1888.

  10 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 98.

  11 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 238, p 249.

  12 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 30.

  13 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 218.

  14 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 38.

  15 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 99.

  16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Bohemian in Exile’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 143.

  17 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 46.

  18 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Saga of the Seas’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 143.

  19 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 82.

  20 Stevenson, Robert Louis, op cit., p 152.

  21 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 114; Stevenson, Robert Louis, op cit., dedication.

  22 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 143.

  23 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 84.

  24 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (162).

  25 Grahame, Elspeth, First Whisper of ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (Methuen, London, 1944), p 27.

  CHAPTER 7

  1 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Of Smoking’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 105.

  2 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 87.

  3 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 215.

  4 Smith, Kathryn A., op cit., p 1029.

  5 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 9.

  6 Quoted in Hunt, Peter, The Making of The Wind in the Willows (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2018), p 35.

  7 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 126.

  8 W. D. Livesay, 12 August 1908, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 531 (83).

  9 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 147; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 80.

  10 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Romance of the Road’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), pp 17–18.

  11 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 78.

  12 Stevenson, Robert Louis, op cit., p 136.

  13 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 101.

  14 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 134.

  15 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 102.

  16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Rural Pan’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 69.

  17 See Mandler, Peter, ‘Against “Englishness”: English Culture and the Limits to Rural Nostalgia, 1850–1940’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol 7 (1997), p 107.

  18 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Deus Terminus’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), pp 96–8.

  19 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 66.

  20 Sloan, John, John Davidson, First of the Moderns (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995), pp 101–2.

  21 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), pp 45–6.

  22 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (124) (Evelyn Sharp Nevinson).

  23 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 361 n 15.

  24 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 152.

  25 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 55.

  26 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 152.

  27 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 39.

  28 Ibid., pp 18–19.

  29 Ibid., p 44.

  CHAPTER 8

  1 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Magic Ring’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 124.

  2 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fellow That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 68.

  3 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 11.

  4 Ibid., p 10; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 158.

  5 Greg, T. T., Through a Glass Lightly (Dent & Company, London, 1897); Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fel
low That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 68.

  6 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 30.

  7 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 21.

  8 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 128.

  9 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Saga of the Seas’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 143.

  10 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 114.

  11 Ibid., p 112.

  12 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fairy Wicket’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 161.

  13 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 135.

  14 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 134.

  15 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Mutabile Semper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 117.

  16 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Its Walls were as of Jasper’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 135.

  17 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380.

  18 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 16; Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 217.

  19 ‘The Reluctant Dragon’, also included in the sequence and written at the same time, is essentially a stand-alone piece.

  20 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘A Departure’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), pp 170–71.

  21 ‘Love’s Reveille’, poem, National Observer, 27 February 1892.

  CHAPTER 9

  1 Elspeth Thomson to Kenneth Grahame, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (1).

  2 Ibid.

  3 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 3 November 1908, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 219.

  4 Elspeth Thomson to Kenneth Grahame, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (1).

  5 See Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 207.

  6 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated (‘Monday morning’) 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (5).

  7 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (9).

  8 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (23).

  9 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (26).

  10 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (24).

  11 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (27).

  12 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (24).

  13 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (30).

  14 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (32).

  15 Ibid.

  16 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (35).

  17 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 227.

  18 Ibid.

  19 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (37).

  20 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (41).

  21 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (47).

  22 Elspeth Thomson, ‘Accepted’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (105).

  23 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (47).

  24 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (69).

  25 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 215.

  26 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (93, 90).

  27 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 216.

  28 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (47).

  29 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), pp 227–8.

  30 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (61).

  31 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 165.

  32 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 237.

  33 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (57).

  34 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 8 July 1912, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., pp 239–40; Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 227; Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 7 February 1911, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 234.

  35 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 20 September 1911, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 237.

  36 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 227.

  CHAPTER 10

  1 See Tomalin, Claire, Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man (Penguin paperback, London, 2007), p 431 n 30.

  2 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 217.

  3 Ibid., p 216.

  4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Sawdust and Sin’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 27.

  5 Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.

  6 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 75; Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Magic Ring’ (Dream Days, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 126.

  7 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Thomson, undated 1899, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 480 (47).

  8 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 226.

  9 Quoted in Prince, Alison, op cit., p 141.

  10 Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (162).

  11 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Roman Road’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 58.

  12 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, pp 225–6.

  13 Elspeth Thomson, ‘Ah Happy Eyes’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (108).

  14 Elspeth Thomson, ‘It would provoke a saint’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (107).

  15 Elspeth Thomson, ‘I’m quite sure if you only knew’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (129).

  16 Elspeth Thomson, ‘Rejected’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (110).

  17 Elspeth Thomson, ‘Give me a kiss that will last for ever’, poem, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (130).

  18 Hunt, Peter, op cit., p 40.

  19 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 313.

  20 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 196.

  21 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 178.

  22 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 24 August 1910, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 228.

  23 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 17.

  24 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 326.

  25 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 149.

  CHAPTER 11

  1 Graham, Eleanor, op cit., p 38.

  2 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 481; Prince, Alison, op cit., p 189.

  3 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 481 (24).

  4 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 481 (91).

  5 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 46.

  6 Ibid., p 10.

  7 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 206.

  8 Ibid.

  9 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 98.

  10 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 226; Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 38.

  11 Gre
en, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 115.

  12 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 481 (12).

  13 Kenneth Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 481 (17).

  14 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 209.

  15 Ibid., p 199.

  16 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 236.

  17 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 3.

  18 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 178.

  19 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 7.

  CHAPTER 12

  1 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 49, p 88.

  2 Hunt, Peter, op cit., p 54.

  3 Ibid., p 51.

  4 Smedley, Constance, An April Princess (Cassell & Co, London, 1903).

  5 See Gooderson, David, intro, My Dearest Mouse: ‘The Wind in the Willows’ Letters (Pavilion, London, 1988), p 11.

  6 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 269.

  7 Gooderson, David, op cit., p 11.

  8 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 30.

  9 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 166.

  10 Graham Robertson to Kenneth Grahame, undated (1908), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 529 (17).

  11 Graham Robertson to Kenneth Grahame, undated (1908), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 529 (13).

  12 Hunt, Peter, op cit., p 86.

  13 Ibid., p 47.

  14 Ibid.

  15 Times Literary Supplement, 22 October 1908.

  16 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 17 December 1908, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 221.

  17 Kenneth Grahame to Miss Francois, 31 January 1909, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (54).

  18 Ibid.

  19 Hunt, Peter, op cit., p 88.

  20 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 3 November 1908, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 220.

  21 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 179.

  22 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 36.

  23 Ibid., p 274.

  24 Kenneth Grahame to Miss Gullett, 20 May 1913, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (83).