Grahame, Kenneth
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Grahame, Kenneth (1859–1932), contributed to the
Yellow Book and was encouraged by W. E.
Henley, who published many of the essays which later appeared in
Pagan Papers in 1893. Six of the ‘papers’ described the life of a family of five orphans, whose activities then filled the chapters of
The Golden Age (1895) and its continuation,
Dream Days (1898). The reception of
The Wind in the Willows (1908; based largely on bedtime stories and letters to his son) was muted, and it was not for some years that the story of Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad, and their life by the river, became established as a children's classic. The book was dramatized by A. A.
Milne in 1929.
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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THE REAL MR TOAD; As a lavish, big-budget production of The Wind In The Willows hits our screens, MARY GREENE reveals the unhappy, sexually repressed life of its author KENNETH GRAHAME, and the insufferably spoilt, bullying son he created the stories for.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/16/2006; 700+ words
; ...the book's author, Kenneth Grahame. The real life Colonel...Badger and Mole. Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh...the son of Cunningham Grahame, an upper-middleclass...scarlet fever days after Kenneth's fifth birthday and...
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LOST IN the wild wood LITERATURE 'THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS' IS A HYMN TO OLD ENGLAND. BUT FOR ITS AUTHOR, IT MEANT MUCH MORE THAN THAT. A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER ITS PUBLICATION, JOHN PRESTON EXPLORES THE PRIVATE TORMENTS THAT INSPIRED KENNETH GRAHAME TO WRITE HIS CLASSIC
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the bank secretary, Kenneth Grahame, instead. When Grahame...to her fourth child. Grahame's father, Cunningham...in 1887, just before Kenneth's 28th birthday...France. As an adult, Kenneth Grahame was constantly pulled...
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 "Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)")
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Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published 100 years ago next month and its appeal remains undimmed by time, the adventures of Mole, Ratty and Mr Toad still being read either to children or by them.
Newspaper article from: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 9/20/2008; 695 words
; Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows was published...much-loved one at that, written by Grahame, a self-effacing senior bank official...later died tragically. It's the book by Grahame that everyone knows, but it's not the...
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TIMESPAST: Kenneth Grahame
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 6/8/2001; ; 430 words
; ...literature was written by Scotsman Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows has delighted...s life was not so full of joy. Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and...Sheriff for Argyllshire. In 1864, Grahame was sent to live with his grandmother...
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The row that gave us Wind in the Willows; His creation: Mr Toad The author: Kenneth Grahame His nemesis? Walter Cunliffe.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...classic. The author in this case was Kenneth Grahame, the genius behind The Wind in...think the job was a problem for Grahame. When he quit it was all about what was going on with Cunliffe.' Grahame's resignation letter of June...
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 "The Sunday Independent (South Africa)")
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Private torments of Wind in Willows author; The book is a hymn to Old England. But, for its author, it meant much more than that. A hundred years after itspublication, John Preston explores the private torments that inspired Kenneth Grahame to write his classic.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 2/17/2008; 700+ words
; ...retired, he was asked if he would like to see Kenneth Grahame, the bank secretary, instead. When Grahame appeared, Robinson walked towards him holding...at the other with a black one. He asked Grahame to choose which end to take. After some...
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The row that gave us Wind in the Willows; (1) His creation: Mr Toad (2) The author: Kenneth Grahame (3) His nemesis? Walter Cunliffe.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...classic. The author in this case was Kenneth Grahame, the genius behind The Wind in...think the job was a problem for Grahame. When he quit it was all about what was going on with Cunliffe.' Grahame's resignation letter of June...
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Green and dying in chains: Dylan Thomas's "Fern Hill" and Kenneth Grahame's 'The Golden Age.'.
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...homelier and less illustrious name of Kenneth Grahame for his The Golden Age. First...reappearance in The Golden Age made Grahame famous long before The Wind in...My thesis is not just that Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age appealed very...
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Gender Trouble in Arcadia or a world of multigendered possibility? Intersubjectivity and gender in The Wind in the Willows.(a book by Kenneth Grahame)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...one of the 'great enemies' in Kenneth Grahame's world because it signals the...pattern' (1982, p.117). Grahame himself claimed that by using anthropomorphized...publishers at Charles Scribner's, Grahame's insistence that The Wind in...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Poop, poop ... it's the real Mr Toad; REVEALED: The bossy, tweed-loving colonel who drove a yellow Rolls-Royce and inspired Kenneth Grahame's classic book.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 8/20/2000; 700+ words
; ...Thames riverbank where writer Kenneth Grahame set his childhood classic The...hearted man. And so it was that Grahame, then a mild-mannered bank...which was Toad's downfall. Kenneth Grahame's biographer, Alison Prince...
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Grahame, Kenneth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kenneth Grahame Scotland-born British writer Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) remains known above all for a single...of adults was kept at bay. Contracted Scarlet Fever Kenneth Grahame was born on March 8, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland...
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Kenneth Grahame
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kenneth Grahame , 1859-1931, English author. He was a secretary in the Bank of England...England, and the children's classic The Wind in the Willows (1908). Grahame also compiled the Cambridge Book of Poetry for Young People (1916...
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Maxfield Parrish
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York, Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood, The Arabian Nights, Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age and Dream Days, and many other volumes. Bibliography: See biographies by P. W. Sheeter (1973...
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children's book illustration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...composition. Ernest Shepard's drawings for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and for an edition of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows (1931) are warm and humorous. The Golden Age of Illustration After a decline during the...
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Morrill, Leslie H(olt) 1934-2003
Book article from: Something About the Author
...His illustrations accompany the text of such well-known children's authors as Eve Bunting, Matt Christopher, Kenneth Grahame, George Selden, Walter Dean Myers, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Judy Delton, and Mary Calhoun. He also illustrated...
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