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Author Galvin, Elisabeth, author.

Title The real Kenneth Grahame : the tragedy behind The wind in the willows / Elisabeth Galvin.

Publication Info. Barnsley, South Yorkshire ; Havertown, PA : White Owl, an imprint of Pen and Sword Books, 2021.
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Summary "He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the beloved River Thames. Forced to abandon his dreams of studying at Oxford, he was accepted as a clerk at the Bank of England where he became one of the youngest men to be made company secretary. He narrowly escaped death in 1903 when he was mistaken for the Bank's governor and shot at several times. He wrote secretly in his spare time for magazines and became a contemporary of contributors including Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw and WB Yeats. Kenneth's first book, Pagan Papers (1893) initiated his success, followed by The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), which turned him into a celebrated author. Ironically, his most famous novel today was the least successful during his lifetime: The Wind in the Willows (1908) originated as letters to his disabled son, who was later found dead on a train line after a suspected suicide. Kenneth never recovered from the tragedy and died with a broken heart in earshot of the River Thames. His widow, Elspeth, dedicated the rest of her life to preserving her husband's name and promoting his work."-- Provided by publisher
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2022).
Subject Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932.
Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. (OCoLC)fst00000153
Novelists, Scottish -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, Scottish. (OCoLC)fst01039769
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Galvin, Elisabeth. Real Kenneth Grahame. Barnsley : White Owl, 2021 9781526748805 (OCoLC)1272874983
ISBN 9781526748812 (electronic book)
1526748819 (electronic book)
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