Grahame, Kenneth
Grahame, Kenneth ( 1859 – 1932 ),born in Edinburgh. After school in Oxford he entered the Bank of England, where he became secretary in 1898 . As a young man he 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 sharp, authentic vision of childhood, and the shrewd observation of the child narrator, were widely praised, not least by Swinburne , and brought Grahame great success in both England and the USA. The Wind in the Willows, based largely on bedtime stories and letters to his son, was never intended by Grahame to become a published work; the manuscript was given reluctantly to an importunate...
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