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Grahame, Kenneth (1944), Grahame, Elspeth (ed.), First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows, Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott tells how the stories evolved from bedtime stories (and letters, in his absence) for his son Alastair, then known as "Mouse". Hunt, Peter (1994). The Wind in the Willows: A Fragmented Arcadia. New York: Twayne ...
Grahame was born on 8 March 1859 at 32 Castle Street in Edinburgh.His parents were James Cunningham Grahame (1830–1887), advocate, and Elizabeth Ingles (1837–1864).). When Grahame was a little more than a year old, his father was appointed as sheriff-substitute in Argyllshire, and the family moved to Inveraray on Loch Fyne with Grahame, his older sister, Helen, and his older brother ...
The inspiration for Mr. Toad's wayward mischievousness and boastfulness was Kenneth Grahame's only child Alastair: a family friend, Constance Smedley, overheard Grahame telling Alastair the exploits of Toad as a bedtime story, and noted that "Alastair's own tendency to exult in his exploits was gently satirized in Mr. Toad". [1]
Alastair Hugh Graham (27 June 1904 – 6 October 1982) was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh, and, according to Waugh's letters, one of his "romances". [1] He is, together with Hugh Lygon and Stephen Tennant , considered the main inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in Brideshead Revisited .
Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Children's Classic at 100. Maryland, US: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-810-87258-5. Grahame, Kenneth (1995). The Wind in the Willows. London: The Folio Society. OCLC 38040126. Moore, John David (1990). "Pottering About in the Garden: Kenneth Grahame's Version of Pastoral in The Wind in the Willows" (PDF).
[1] [2] The group took its name from British writer Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature. [3] The band's only album, the self-titled The Wind in the Willows (1968, Capitol Records LP2956), [4] grazed the Billboard Top 200 album chart at #195. The band broke up the following year, after failing to achieve ...
Kenneth Mitchell Todd Williamson/Getty Images Nancy Drew and Star Trek: Discovery actor Kenneth Mitchell died after a five-year battle with ALS. He was 49. “With heavy hearts we announce the ...
The film is based on Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows. It won a BAFTA [1] [2] award and an international Emmy award. [2] Between 1984 and 1990, Cosgrove Hall subsequently made a 52-episode television series, [2] with the film serving as a pilot.