BIOGRAPHIES

Chalmers, Patrick R. Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work. London: Methuen and Co., 1933, 321 p.

The first biography of Grahame, relying on the reminiscences of Grahame's widow, Elspeth.

Graham, Eleanor. Kenneth Grahame. London: Bodley Head, 1963, 72 p.

A brief biographical and critical study from a noted children's writer.

Green, Peter. Kenneth Grahame, 1859-1932: A Study of His Life, Works and Times. London: John Murray, 1959, 400 p.

Argues that Grahame was far more complex than critics and readers realized, and identifies a number of late nineteenth-century issues and concerns in his work. Green finds Grahame a more troubled figure than does Chalmers.

Prince, Alison. Kenneth Grahame: An Innocent in the Wild Wood. London: Allison and Busby, 1994, 384 p.

Identifies Elspeth Grahame's exaggerations in both Chalmers and Green.

CRITICISM

Gilead, Sarah. “Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.” Explicator 46, no. 1 (fall 1987): 33-6.

Discusses the significance of the River Bank in Grahame's novel.

Hunt, Peter. In the Wind in the Willows: A Fragmented Arcadia. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994, 142 p.

Full-length critical analysis of The Wind in the Willows.

Kuznets, Lois R. Kenneth Grahame. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987, 156 p.

Biographical and critical study. Includes an annotated bibliography of selected secondary sources.

———. “Kenneth Grahame and Father Nature, or Whither Blows The Wind in the Willows?” Children's Literature 16 (1998): 175-81.

Examines the “idyllic male-only animal world” of Grahame's novel.

Milne, A. A. Introduction to The Wind and the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, pp. vii-x. New York: The Heritage Press, 1940.

A graceful appreciation from a fellow writer who dramatized the novel.

Robson, W. W. “On The Wind in the Willows.” In The Definition of Literature and Other Essays, pp. 119-44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Considers the novel in a wider literary context and identifies its “artful artlessness” as a vehicle “for more serious purposes.”

Additional coverage of Grahame's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 5; Children's Literature Review, Vol. 5; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 108, 136; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 80; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 34, 141, 178; DISCovering Authors: British Edition; Major Authors; and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, Eds. 1, 2; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 2; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; St. James Guide to Children's Writers, Vol. 5; St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers; Something about the Author, Vol. 100; Twayne's English Authors; Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 64; Writers for Children; and Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children, Vol. 1.