25 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 274.
CHAPTER 13
1 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 186.
2 Alistair Grahame, letter to his parents, 23 July 1911, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527; Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Loafing’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 49; Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 154.
3 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 205; Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (Dream Days, The Bodley Head, London, 1898, reprint Armada, London, 1972), p 15.
4 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘Loafing’ (Pagan Papers, The Bodley Head, reprint 1898), p 47.
5 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 223.
6 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fellow That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 69.
7 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954).
8 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fellow That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 69.
9 Quoted in Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 277.
10 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 27 July 1909, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 222.
11 Kenneth Grahame to Curtis Brown, 22 January 1920, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (130).
12 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 30 September 1910, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 230.
13 Alistair Grahame, letter to his parents, undated 1910, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. e. 482 (91).
14 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 20 May 1910, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 225.
15 Kenneth Grahame to Kitty Cheatham, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (16).
16 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 20 May 1910, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 225.
17 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., pp 17–18.
18 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 292.
19 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 185; see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 530 (182).
20 Green, Peter, op cit., Beyond the Wild Wood, p 205.
21 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fellow That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 67.
22 Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows (Methuen, London, 1908, reprinted The Reprint Society, London, 1954), p 232.
23 Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (106).
24 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 2 August 1910, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., pp 226–7.
25 Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 380 (162).
26 Kenneth Grahame to Curtis Brown, 22 January 1920, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (130).
27 See Graham Robertson’s reply, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 529.
28 Quoted in Prince, Alison, op cit., p 274.
29 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 27 July 1909, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 222.
30 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 351.
31 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 304.
32 Ibid., p 305.
CHAPTER 14
1 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 235.
2 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 261.
3 Alistair Grahame to his parents, 11 June 1911, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527.
4 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 16 August 1911, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 236.
5 Ibid.
6 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 12 January 1911, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 232.
7 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 15 May 1911, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 234.
8 Quoted in Prince, Alison, op cit., p 283.
9 Alistair Grahame to his parents, 15 October 1911, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527.
10 Alistair Grahame to his parents, 10 December 1911, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527.
11 Alistair Grahame to Kenneth Grahame, ‘Xmas 1912’, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527.
12 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 305.
13 Quoted in Prince, Alison, op cit., p 284.
14 Alistair Grahame to Elspeth Grahame, 5 July 1914, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527.
15 A. R. Waller to Kenneth Grahame, 19 March 1913, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526.
16 John Lane to Kenneth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (56).
17 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 352.
18 Kenneth Grahame to A. R. Waller, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (32).
19 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 319.
20 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 286.
21 Graham Robertson to Kenneth Grahame, undated, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 529 (25).
22 Ibid.
23 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 316.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid., p 318.
27 Kenneth Grahame to Austin Purves, 18 February 1915, quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 247.
28 Grahame, Kenneth, ‘The Fellow That Walks Alone’, in Haining, Peter, intro, op cit., p 67.
29 Grahame, Kenneth, speech in aid of French Red Cross Fund, 1918, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525 (87).
CHAPTER 15
1 Kenneth Grahame to Curtis Brown, 29 April 1926, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (134).
2 Kenneth Grahame to A. J. A. Symons, 16 July 1926, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 527 (62).
3 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (120).
4 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 256.
5 Quoted in Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 262.
6 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 525 (97); Prince, Alison, op cit., p 350.
7 See Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 525 (97).
8 Arthur Quiller-Couch to Kenneth Grahame, 17 August 1925, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. c. 381 (156).
9 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 179.
10 Guy Pocock to Kenneth Grahame, 11 September 1925, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526 (151).
11 Grahame, Kenneth, introduction to Sanger, George, Seventy Years a Showman (J. M. Dent, London, 1926), see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 525.
12 Prince, Alison, op cit., p 329.
13 Grahame, Elspeth, op cit., p 27.
14 Chalmers, Patrick R., op cit., p 317.
15 Quoted in Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 346.
16 Kenneth Grahame to Curtis Brown, 8 January 1931, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 526.
17 Ernest Shepard to Kenneth Grahame, November 1931, see Bodleian Library, MS Eng. misc. d. 530 (201).
18 Green, Peter, op cit., Kenneth Grahame, p 349.
19 Grahame Kenneth, ‘The Blue Room’ (The Golden Age, reprinted in The Penguin Kenneth Grahame, intro Naomi Lewis, Penguin, London, 1983), p 73.
Index
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A&C Black 214
Academy 117, 177
Aesop’s Fables 6, 177, 207
Alfred, King 23, 209, 237
Annfield Lodge, Ardrishaig 13
‘Ape and the Child in the Leghorn Hat, The’ 177
Ardrishaig, Scotland 12–13, 16, 17, 91
Argyll, George Campbell, 8th duke of 15–16, 17
Argyll, Scotland 14, 15–16, 17, 56
Arnold, Matthew: ‘Lines Written in Kensington Garden’ 59
Ascot Place, Berkshire 54, 74
Atkinson, Edward ‘Atky’ 160, 173, 181, 200, 206, 218, 238
Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations 55, 96, 171, 235
Baker, Samuel 6
Ballad Society 64
Ballantyne, R. M. 93; The Dog Crusoe and His Master 6, 7
Bank of England 54, 56, 69–76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 101, 104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114�
�15, 117, 127, 128, 132, 134, 137, 138, 143, 149–50, 151, 167, 177, 178, 179, 184, 189, 194, 195, 197, 206, 208, 211, 214, 224
Barnardo, Dr 239
Barnett, Dame Henrietta 82
Barrie, J. M. 104
Bath, Sarah 133–4, 151, 167
Bazille, Madame 98–9, 101
Beardsley, Aubrey 117, 120, 121
Beerbohm, Max 105, 120–1, 122
Berkshire Downs 71, 80–1, 82, 88, 100, 104, 112, 128, 205, 211–12, 227, 236
Bertie (pig) 185
‘Bertie’s Escapade’ 133
Blake, William 181, 193
Bloomsbury Street, London 69, 77–80, 85, 132
‘Blue Room, The’ 243
Blunt, Eliza 180
Bodley Head, The 116, 134–5, 193, 222
Boham’s, Blewbury, Berkshire 209–12, 226, 228, 233, 235, 236, 240
‘Bohemian in Exile, A’ 70, 100–1
Boulogne, France 124
Brittany, France 219, 236
Brown, Curtis 193, 212, 233, 241
Brussels, Belgium 124
‘Burglars, The’ 115
Burne-Jones, Edward 76–7
‘By a Northern Furrow’ 88, 100
Byron, Lord: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 11
Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children 221–2, 223–4, 226
Cambridge University Press 221–2
Cantagalli 97, 134
Canty Queen, The (model wooden boat) 16
Carlyle, Thomas 228
Carroll, Lewis 139
Caxton, William: Golden Legend 76, 228
Chalmers, Patrick: Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work 9, 62, 84, 235, 243
Chapbook, The 126
Chaucer Society 64
‘Cheap Knowledge’ 45–6
Chelsea Gardens 85–8, 111, 132
‘Child’s Play’ 115
Christian Socialism 65
Church Cottage, Pangbourne 237–8, 240, 241
‘Conversation between a Balcony and a Waterspout’ 102
Cookham Dean, Berkshire 23–31, 80, 184, 194, 206, 211
Corbett, Rex 217
Cornhill Magazine 101–2
Cornwall 91–4, 153, 155–9, 165, 170, 190, 218–19, 236
Corvo, Baron 138
Cosgrave, John O’Hara 190
Cranbourne, Berkshire 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 58, 80, 97, 131, 137
Crane, Walter 122
Crinan Canal 12–13, 17
Cunliffe, Walter 194
Dent, J. M. 238–9
‘Departure, A’ 21, 144
‘Deus Terminus’ 119
Devey, George 16
Devonshire Club, London 121
Dicksee, Frank 140–1
‘Dies Irae’ 56, 135
‘Dog, the Child and the Moon, The’ 177
Draycott Lodge, Fulham 54–5, 59, 61, 62
Dream Days 26–7, 28, 72, 139–40, 144, 150, 177, 190–1, 198, 211, 214, 224
Durham Villas, Kensington 167–8, 177, 180, 184, 189, 205, 235
Early English Text Society 64
Edinburgh, Scotland 9–12, 14, 16, 17, 21, 103, 143
Elizabeth I, Queen 49
‘Eternal Whither, The’ 70, 75
Everybody’s Magazine 190–1, 193
‘Fairy Wicket, The’ 39, 40, 139
‘Fellow that Walks Alone, The’ 228, 238
Ferguson, (nurse) 10, 17, 22, 28, 31, 53, 54
Fern Hill Cottage, Cranbourne, Berkshire 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 58
Fieling, Joan 142
Fieling, Keith 227
Fieling, Tony 142
Fiesole, Italy 60, 96–7
‘Finding of the Princess, The’ 115
First World War (1914–18) 196, 226–7, 228, 233, 238
Florence, Italy 59–60, 94, 96, 134, 235
Forster, E. M.: The Longest Journey 86
Fortnightly Review 235
Fowey, Cornwall 155–6, 157, 158–61, 170, 189, 190, 218, 233
Fowey Yacht Club 160
Fra Angelico 60, 96
French Red Cross 228
Fryer, Frederick 41, 108
‘Funeral, A’ 106
Furnivall, Frederick 64–5, 76, 82, 84–5, 95, 98, 100, 102, 123, 200
Golden Age, The 26–7, 28, 72, 126–7, 134, 135, 139, 190, 191, 198, 211, 214, 224, 234
Gosse, Edmund 122
Grahame, Agnes (cousin) 47, 61
Grahame, Alistair ‘Mouse’ (son) 171–4, 177, 178, 179–80, 182, 184, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 200, 205, 207–9, 217–21, 225–6, 227, 228, 229, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 242, 243
Grahame, Annie (cousin) 61, 62, 94, 96–7, 132, 134, 138–9, 144, 224
Grahame, Bessie (cousin) 47
Grahame, Bessie (mother) 9–10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17–18, 21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 42, 53, 54, 62, 84, 98, 131, 184
Grahame, Currie and Spens 24, 32, 54, 55, 60, 63, 74, 75, 98, 99
Grahame, Elspeth (wife):
Annie Grahame and 62
appearance 140–1
Chalmers biography of Kenneth Graeme and 62, 235–6, 243
childhood acquaintance of famous literary figures 141–2
courtship with Kenneth Grahame 149–61
death of Kenneth Grahame and 242
Dicksee portrait of 140–1
first meets Kenneth Grahame 141–5
inheritance 161, 182–3
marriage to Kenneth Grahame 165–74, 178, 179–80, 182–3, 184–5, 190, 191, 194, 195, 197, 199, 200, 201, 206, 207–8, 209, 210, 213–14, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225, 226, 228, 233, 234–5, 236–7, 238, 239–40, 242, 243
son/motherhood and 171–3, 174, 179–80, 207–8, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225, 226, 233, 234
The Wind in the Willows and 178, 197, 237, 243
wedding 144–5, 161
Grahame, Georgina (aunt) 59–60, 61, 85, 94, 96–7
Grahame, Helen (sister) 10, 15, 17–18, 22, 23, 24–5, 28–9, 32, 37, 38, 42, 47, 53, 61, 64, 74, 83, 91, 97, 98, 131, 151–2, 153, 156, 157, 159, 238
Grahame, James: The Sabbath 11
Grahame, James Cunningham (father) 10, 11–12, 13, 14–16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31–3, 38, 42, 53, 57, 56, 62, 64, 71, 98–100, 101, 131, 177, 184, 201, 207, 224, 242
Grahame, Joan (sister-in-law) 142–3, 206–7
Grahame, John (uncle) 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 37, 42, 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 63, 69, 70, 71–2, 75, 76, 98, 102, 114–15, 117, 118–19, 127, 131, 136, 161, 179, 184
Grahame, Kenneth:
appearance 5, 69, 83, 95, 106, 205
autobiography, quashes suggestions of 233
Bank of England career 54, 56, 69–76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 101, 104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114–15, 117, 127, 128, 132, 134, 137, 138, 143, 149–50, 151, 167, 177, 178, 179, 184, 189, 194, 195, 197, 206, 208, 211, 214, 224
biographies of 9, 62, 84, 235, 243
birth 9
childhood 1–50, 53, 55, 71, 73, 79, 87, 114, 118, 127, 131–2, 136, 143, 211, 224
children see individual child name
circuses and country fairs, love of 7, 21, 29, 131, 135–6, 209, 237, 239
death 242–3
fairy tales, love of 61–2, 133, 138
Grahame, Currie and Spens job 54, 55, 60, 63, 74, 75, 98, 99
health 84, 91, 150, 151, 179, 194, 205
homes see individual home and place name
journalism 63, 72, 75–6, 132
London Scottish Regiment, member of 63, 76, 82, 137, 226
love, first 62
personal fantasy, passion for 5–6, 7, 29, 57
poetry 32, 64, 84
reviews of works 117–18, 150, 194–5, 222–3
schooldays 37, 39–50, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 77, 96, 108, 137, 228
sex and 47, 119, 139, 142, 154, 156, 165–9, 171, 197, 198–9
shooting incident 197, 208
stories see individual story name
travel see individual place name
university, des
ire to attend 48, 50, 57–8, 102
Volunteer Defence Corps 226–7
works see individual work name
writing, first 63–4, 65
writing first appears in print 88
writing first shown to Furnivall 65, 98
Grahame, Robert (uncle) 54, 59, 61
Grahame, Roland (brother) 10, 18, 22, 23, 32, 47, 53, 61, 74, 78, 83, 85, 98, 131, 132, 142–3, 206–7, 227, 238
Grahame, Thomas William ‘Willie’ (brother) 10, 15, 17, 22, 23, 28–9, 32, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 53, 74, 98, 131
Grahame, Walter (cousin) 61
Grand Theatre, Islington 95
Greenwood, Frederick 100
Greg, Tom 104, 132–3, 134, 144, 181
Hamilton, Clayton 205
Hardy, Emma 165, 170
Hardy, Thomas 101, 165, 214
Harland, Aline 123–4, 138
Harland, Henry 120, 121–2, 123–4, 125, 126, 135, 138
‘Harvesting, A’ 25
Hawkins, Anthony Hope 122, 126–7, 161
‘Headswoman, The’ 71, 113–14, 125, 126
Henley, William Ernest 100, 102–3, 104–6, 111, 115, 116–17, 120, 121, 123, 125, 126, 134, 200, 224
Herrick, Robert 76, 223–4, 241
Highways and Hedges 214, 223
HMS Hercules 38
Hodson, George Hewitt 25
Hogg, James 224
Hohenzollern 126
Home, Gordon 214
Hope, Anthony: The Prisoner of Zenda 122, 126–7, 220
Hope, Mary 134
Horace 76, 96
Hundred Fables of Aesop, A 207
‘Ideals’ 235
Inglis, David (uncle) 17, 24, 25, 32, 54
Inglis, Jack (uncle) 38, 47
Inglis, Mary (grandmother) 24–6, 28, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 54, 61, 62, 71, 78, 118–19, 131, 136, 207, 224
Inglis, Reginald (cousin) 38, 77, 83, 84, 101
‘Iniquity of Oblivion, The’ 60
‘Inner Ear, The’ 118
Inveraray Castle, Scotland 17
Inveraray, Scotland 17, 23, 31, 32, 38, 53, 64, 91, 183, 206
Italy 59–60, 94–8, 123, 195, 233–6
Jefferies, Richard 82–3
Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat 73, 112, 196
‘Justifiable Homicide’ 55–6
Keats/Shelley Association 235
Kensington Crescent, London 132, 134, 144, 151, 154, 167, 168
Kipling, Rudyard 104
Lane, John 116, 117, 120, 121–3, 126, 135, 150, 169, 193, 222
Le Gallienne, Richard 123
Leighton, Frederic 122
Lidderdale, William 54, 69, 74
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