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TravelEtc: Grand tours; Life is too short to waste on spring- cleaning Great writers and their adventures in literature. This week: Kenneth Grahame
; Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859, the son...committed suicide while at Oxford, and Grahame, heartbroken, stopped writing. He died...stretch of water near Pangbourne, where Grahame lived and where he is commemorated by a...
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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
; ...the bank secretary, Kenneth Grahame, instead. When Grahame...to her fourth child. Grahame's father, Cunningham...in 1887, just before Kenneth's 28th birthday. On...France. As an adult, Kenneth Grahame was constantly pulled...
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TIMESPAST: Kenneth Grahame
; ...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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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)
; ...is one of the 'great enemies' in Kenneth Grahame's world because it signals the...the ideal pattern' (1982, p.117). Grahame himself claimed that by using anthropomorphized...publishers at Charles Scribner's, Grahame's insistence that The Wind in the...
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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)
; ...retired, he was asked if he would like to see Kenneth Grahame, the bank secretary, instead. When Grahame appeared, Robinson walked towards him holding...and at the other with a black one. He asked Grahame to choose which end to take. After some understandable...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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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.
; ...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 15...
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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.
; ...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 15...
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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.
; ...as the book's author, Kenneth Grahame. The real life Colonel...Ratty, 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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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Ratty and mole fans head for port town ; Lovers of the classic children's book The Wind In The Willows will be converging on Cornwall this week for the inaugural meeting of the Kenneth Grahame Society, 100 years after the book was first published.
; ...converging on Cornwall this week for the inaugural meeting of the Kenneth Grahame Society, 100 years after the book was first published. Millions...information, call Nigel McMorris on 07881 587866 or e- mail badger@kenneth grahamesociety.net
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Wind of change A new version of Kenneth Grahame's classic marks a new era of experimentation and access at the Royal Opera House's smaller spaces, says NADINE MEISNER
; ...Toad's shiny new motor car, painted bright red; and Toad himself in "goggles, cap, gaiters and enormous overcoat". Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is upon us, not in the Alan Bennett version that was a hit at the Royal National Theatre...
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