Index

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A&C Black 214

Academy 117, 177

Aesop’s Fables 6, 177, 207

Alfred, King 23, 209, 237

Annfield Lodge, Ardrishaig 13

‘Ape and the Child in the Leghorn Hat, The’ 177

Ardrishaig, Scotland 12–13, 16, 17, 91

Argyll, George Campbell, 8th duke of 15–16, 17

Argyll, Scotland 14, 15–16, 17, 56

Arnold, Matthew: ‘Lines Written in Kensington Garden’ 59

Ascot Place, Berkshire 54, 74

Atkinson, Edward ‘Atky’ 160, 173, 181, 200, 206, 218, 238

Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations 55, 96, 171, 235

Baker, Samuel 6

Ballad Society 64

Ballantyne, R. M. 93; The Dog Crusoe and His Master 6, 7

Bank of England 54, 56, 69–76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 101, 104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114–15, 117, 127, 128, 132, 134, 137, 138, 143, 149–50, 151, 167, 177, 178, 179, 184, 189, 194, 195, 197, 206, 208, 211, 214, 224

Barnardo, Dr 239

Barnett, Dame Henrietta 82

Barrie, J. M. 104

Bath, Sarah 133–4, 151, 167

Bazille, Madame 98–9, 101

Beardsley, Aubrey 117, 120, 121

Beerbohm, Max 105, 120–1, 122

Berkshire Downs 71, 80–1, 82, 88, 100, 104, 112, 128, 205, 211–12, 227, 236

Bertie (pig) 185

‘Bertie’s Escapade’ 133

Blake, William 181, 193

Bloomsbury Street, London 69, 77–80, 85, 132

‘Blue Room, The’ 243

Blunt, Eliza 180

Bodley Head, The 116, 134–5, 193, 222

Boham’s, Blewbury, Berkshire 209–12, 226, 228, 233, 235, 236, 240

‘Bohemian in Exile, A’ 70, 100–1

Boulogne, France 124

Brittany, France 219, 236

Brown, Curtis 193, 212, 233, 241

Brussels, Belgium 124

‘Burglars, The’ 115

Burne-Jones, Edward 76–7

‘By a Northern Furrow’ 88, 100

Byron, Lord: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers 11

Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children 221–2, 223–4, 226

Cambridge University Press 221–2

Cantagalli 97, 134

Canty Queen, The (model wooden boat) 16

Carlyle, Thomas 228

Carroll, Lewis 139

Caxton, William: Golden Legend 76, 228

Chalmers, Patrick: Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work 9, 62, 84, 235, 243

Chapbook, The 126

Chaucer Society 64

‘Cheap Knowledge’ 45–6

Chelsea Gardens 85–8, 111, 132

‘Child’s Play’ 115

Christian Socialism 65

Church Cottage, Pangbourne 237–8, 240, 241

‘Conversation between a Balcony and a Waterspout’ 102

Cookham Dean, Berkshire 23–31, 80, 184, 194, 206, 211

Corbett, Rex 217

Cornhill Magazine 101–2

Cornwall 91–4, 153, 155–9, 165, 170, 190, 218–19, 236

Corvo, Baron 138

Cosgrave, John O’Hara 190

Cranbourne, Berkshire 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 58, 80, 97, 131, 137

Crane, Walter 122

Crinan Canal 12–13, 17

Cunliffe, Walter 194

Dent, J. M. 238–9

‘Departure, A’ 21, 144

‘Deus Terminus’ 119

Devey, George 16

Devonshire Club, London 121

Dicksee, Frank 140–1

‘Dies Irae’ 56, 135

‘Dog, the Child and the Moon, The’ 177

Draycott Lodge, Fulham 54–5, 59, 61, 62

Dream Days 26–7, 28, 72, 139–40, 144, 150, 177, 190–1, 198, 211, 214, 224

Durham Villas, Kensington 167–8, 177, 180, 184, 189, 205, 235

Early English Text Society 64

Edinburgh, Scotland 9–12, 14, 16, 17, 21, 103, 143

Elizabeth I, Queen 49

‘Eternal Whither, The’ 70, 75

Everybody’s Magazine 190–1, 193

‘Fairy Wicket, The’ 39, 40, 139

‘Fellow that Walks Alone, The’ 228, 238

Ferguson, (nurse) 10, 17, 22, 28, 31, 53, 54

Fern Hill Cottage, Cranbourne, Berkshire 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 58

Fieling, Joan 142

Fieling, Keith 227

Fieling, Tony 142

Fiesole, Italy 60, 96–7

‘Finding of the Princess, The’ 115

First World War (1914–18) 196, 226–7, 228, 233, 238

Florence, Italy 59–60, 94, 96, 134, 235

Forster, E. M.: The Longest Journey 86

Fortnightly Review 235

Fowey, Cornwall 155–6, 157, 158–61, 170, 189, 190, 218, 233

Fowey Yacht Club 160

Fra Angelico 60, 96

French Red Cross 228

Fryer, Frederick 41, 108

‘Funeral, A’ 106

Furnivall, Frederick 64–5, 76, 82, 84–5, 95, 98, 100, 102, 123, 200

Golden Age, The 26–7, 28, 72, 126–7, 134, 135, 139, 190, 191, 198, 211, 214, 224, 234

Gosse, Edmund 122

Grahame, Agnes (cousin) 47, 61

Grahame, Alistair ‘Mouse’ (son) 171–4, 177, 178, 179–80, 182, 184, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 200, 205, 207–9, 217–21, 225–6, 227, 228, 229, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 242, 243

Grahame, Annie (cousin) 61, 62, 94, 96–7, 132, 134, 138–9, 144, 224

Grahame, Bessie (cousin) 47

Grahame, Bessie (mother) 9–10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17–18, 21, 24, 25, 28, 31, 33, 42, 53, 54, 62, 84, 98, 131, 184

Grahame, Currie and Spens 24, 32, 54, 55, 60, 63, 74, 75, 98, 99

Grahame, Elspeth (wife):

Annie Grahame and 62

appearance 140–1

Chalmers biography of Kenneth Graeme and 62, 235–6, 243

childhood acquaintance of famous literary figures 141–2

courtship with Kenneth Grahame 149–61

death of Kenneth Grahame and 242

Dicksee portrait of 140–1

first meets Kenneth Grahame 141–5

inheritance 161, 182–3

marriage to Kenneth Grahame 165–74, 178, 179–80, 182–3, 184–5, 190, 191, 194, 195, 197, 199, 200, 201, 206, 207–8, 209, 210, 213–14, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225, 226, 228, 233, 234–5, 236–7, 238, 239–40, 242, 243

son/motherhood and 171–3, 174, 179–80, 207–8, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 225, 226, 233, 234

The Wind in the Willows and 178, 197, 237, 243

wedding 144–5, 161

Grahame, Georgina (aunt) 59–60, 61, 85, 94, 96–7

Grahame, Helen (sister) 10, 15, 17–18, 22, 23, 24–5, 28–9, 32, 37, 38, 42, 47, 53, 61, 64, 74, 83, 91, 97, 98, 131, 151–2, 153, 156, 157, 159, 238

Grahame, James: The Sabbath 11

Grahame, James Cunningham (father) 10, 11–12, 13, 14–16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31–3, 38, 42, 53, 57, 56, 62, 64, 71, 98–100, 101, 131, 177, 184, 201, 207, 224, 242

Grahame, Joan (sister-in-law) 142–3, 206–7

Grahame, John (uncle) 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 37, 42, 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 63, 69, 70, 71–2, 75, 76, 98, 102, 114–15, 117, 118–19, 127, 131, 136, 161, 179, 184

Grahame, Kenneth:

appearance 5, 69, 83, 95, 106, 205

autobiography, quashes suggestions of 233

Bank of England career 54, 56, 69–76, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 101, 104, 105, 108, 111, 113, 114–15, 117, 127, 128, 132, 134, 137, 138, 143, 149–50, 151, 167, 177, 178, 179, 184, 189, 194, 195, 197, 206, 208, 211, 214, 224

biographies of 9, 62, 84, 235, 243

birth 9

childhood 1–50, 53, 55, 71, 73, 79, 87, 114, 118, 127, 131–2, 136, 143, 211, 224

children see individual child name

circuses and country fairs, love of 7, 21, 29, 131, 135–6, 209, 237, 239

death 242–3

fairy tales, love of 61–2, 133, 138

Grahame, Currie and Spens job 54, 55, 60, 63, 74, 75, 98, 99

health 84, 91, 150, 151, 179, 194, 205

homes see individual home and place name

journalism 63, 72, 75–6, 132

London Scottish Regiment, member of 63, 76, 82, 137, 226

love, first 62

personal fantasy, passion for 5–6, 7, 29, 57

poetry 32, 64, 84

reviews of works 117–18, 150, 194–5, 222–3

schooldays 37, 39–50, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 77, 96, 108, 137, 228

sex and 47, 119, 139, 142, 154, 156, 165–9, 171, 197, 198–9

shooting incident 197, 208

stories see individual story name

travel see individual place name

university, desire to attend 48, 50, 57–8, 102

Volunteer Defence Corps 226–7

works see individual work name

writing, first 63–4, 65

writing first appears in print 88

writing first shown to Furnivall 65, 98

Grahame, Robert (uncle) 54, 59, 61

Grahame, Roland (brother) 10, 18, 22, 23, 32, 47, 53, 61, 74, 78, 83, 85, 98, 131, 132, 142–3, 206–7, 227, 238

Grahame, Thomas William ‘Willie’ (brother) 10, 15, 17, 22, 23, 28–9, 32, 37, 38, 39, 42, 43, 47, 53, 74, 98, 131

Grahame, Walter (cousin) 61

Grand Theatre, Islington 95

Greenwood, Frederick 100

Greg, Tom 104, 132–3, 134, 144, 181

Hamilton, Clayton 205

Hardy, Emma 165, 170

Hardy, Thomas 101, 165, 214

Harland, Aline 123–4, 138

Harland, Henry 120, 121–2, 123–4, 125, 126, 135, 138

‘Harvesting, A’ 25

Hawkins, Anthony Hope 122, 126–7, 161

‘Headswoman, The’ 71, 113–14, 125, 126

Henley, William Ernest 100, 102–3, 104–6, 111, 115, 116–17, 120, 121, 123, 125, 126, 134, 200, 224

Herrick, Robert 76, 223–4, 241

Highways and Hedges 214, 223

HMS Hercules 38

Hodson, George Hewitt 25

Hogg, James 224

Hohenzollern 126

Home, Gordon 214

Hope, Anthony: The Prisoner of Zenda 122, 126–7, 220

Hope, Mary 134

Horace 76, 96

Hundred Fables of Aesop, A 207

‘Ideals’ 235

Inglis, David (uncle) 17, 24, 25, 32, 54

Inglis, Jack (uncle) 38, 47

Inglis, Mary (grandmother) 24–6, 28, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, 53, 54, 61, 62, 71, 78, 118–19, 131, 136, 207, 224

Inglis, Reginald (cousin) 38, 77, 83, 84, 101

‘Iniquity of Oblivion, The’ 60

‘Inner Ear, The’ 118

Inveraray Castle, Scotland 17

Inveraray, Scotland 17, 23, 31, 32, 38, 53, 64, 91, 183, 206

Italy 59–60, 94–8, 123, 195, 233–6

Jefferies, Richard 82–3

Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat 73, 112, 196

‘Justifiable Homicide’ 55–6

Keats/Shelley Association 235

Kensington Crescent, London 132, 134, 144, 151, 154, 167, 168

Kipling, Rudyard 104

Lane, John 116, 117, 120, 121–3, 126, 135, 150, 169, 193, 222

Le Gallienne, Richard 123

Leighton, Frederic 122

Lidderdale, William 54, 69, 74

Lippi, Filippo and Filippino 60, 96

‘Loafing’ 103, 151

Loch Fyne, Scotland 12, 21, 23, 62, 224

Lochgilphead, Scotland 13–14

London see individual area and place name

London Scottish Regiment 63, 76, 82, 137, 226

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 15, 21, 177, 224; ‘My Lost Youth’ 15

‘Long Odds’ 7, 70

Lorne, Lord 17

‘Love’s Reveille’ 144

Macaulay, Thomas Babington 38, 223; Lays of Ancient Rome 3, 4, 48, 97

‘Magic Ring, The’ 135–6

Marseilles, France 173

Martineau, Harriet 228

Mary I, Queen 49

McGilp, Rory 16

Methuen & Company 193–4

Meredith, George 95

Middleton, William Campbell 194

Milne, A. A.: Toad of Toad Hall 241

Milton, John: Paradise Lost 48

Morris, William 58

Moulton, John Fletcher 143, 152, 156, 157, 161, 182–3, 214

Mount, The, Cookham Dean, Berkshire 23–31, 37, 38, 40, 42, 62, 71, 74, 91, 94, 100, 107, 116, 119, 136, 177, 178, 224

‘Mutabile Semper’ 139–40, 142

National Gallery 60, 96

National Observer 103, 104, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 132, 214

New English Dictionary 64

New Review 126, 134

New Shakspere Society 61, 64, 76, 85, 137

Odyssey, The (Homer) 8, 199–200

‘Of Smoking’ 103, 151

Old Malthouse, The, Dorset 217, 220, 237

‘Olympians, The’ 33, 106, 107, 115–17, 121, 123, 125–6, 137, 180, 193, 198, 200, 214, 224, 243

‘Orion’ 70

O’Shea, Katherine 102

Oxford 37–50, 57–8, 76, 77, 92, 96, 184, 195, 227, 229, 237

Oxford Movement 41, 96

Oxford University 46, 48, 49, 50, 57–8, 76, 227

Pagan Papers 117–19, 121, 126

Pall Mall Gazette 82, 95, 132

Pangbourne, Berkshire 184, 237, 238, 239–40, 242

Paris, France 173, 219

Parnell, Charles 102

Payn, James 101–2

Pinturicchio 60, 96

Pitlochry, Scotland 61, 62, 97

Pocock, Guy 239

Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 189, 194

Presbyterianism 24

Punch 84, 135, 197

Purves, Austin 190, 194, 195–6, 207–8, 212, 213, 223, 226–7, 238

Purves, Betsy 194

Pyrenees 173

Quarry Wood, Berkshire 23–4, 27, 205

Quiller-Couch, Arthur ‘Q’ 159–60, 161, 173, 181, 183, 200, 206, 218, 222, 223, 225, 238, 241, 243

Quiller-Couch, Bevill 218, 238

Raeburn, Henry 103

‘Reluctant Dragon, The’ vii, 11, 38, 80–1, 123, 127–8, 172

Richardson, Mary 91, 92

Robert the Bruce 10

Robertson, Graham 180–1, 192–3, 194, 206, 212, 223, 224, 225, 226

Roberts, Tom 93

Rodd, Sir Rennell 235

‘Romance of the Road, The’ 55, 114, 115

‘Roman Road, The’ 123, 169

Rome, Italy 97, 234–5, 236

Roosevelt, Theodore 190, 195, 198

Rural Pan, The’ 59, 72, 103, 119

Ruskin, John 60, 77; The Stones of Venice 77

‘Saga of the Seas, A’ 7–8, 102, 144

Sala, George Augustus: Twice Round the Clock; or the Hours of the Day and Night in London 70

Sanger, George 21, 239

Sargent, John Singer 180–1

‘Sawdust and Sin’ 121, 166

Scotland see individual area or place name

Scots Observer 103, 111, 118

Scott, Walter 12, 21, 242

Scribner’s Magazine 126

‘Secret Drawer, The’ 86

Shakespeare, William 38, 223, 241

Sharp, Evelyn 108, 124, 125–6, 138, 144

Shaw, George Bernard 95

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 235, 241; The Cenci 95–6, 123, 135

Shelley Society 95

Shepard, E. H. 241

Simpson, Dr James 9–10

Sitwell, Osbert 237–8

Smedley, Constance 189–92, 193, 210, 213, 214

Smith, Elder & Co 82

Smith, Gregory 134

‘Snowbound’ 115

Soho, London 60, 65, 83, 96

Solferino’s, Chiswick 104–5

Spain 173

‘Spell of Oxford, The’ 40

St Edward’s School Chronicle 48–9, 64, 75, 228

St Edward’s School, Oxford 37, 39–50, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 75, 77, 96, 108, 137, 228

St Giles’ Fair 45

St James’s Gazette 88, 100–1, 102

Stevenson, Robert Louis 4, 84, 102, 103–4, 105, 115

‘An Apology for Idlers’ 30, 103

‘Pan’s Pipes’ 103

Treasure Island 93, 102, 167

Virginibus Puerisque 103–4, 105, 116

‘Stevensonettes’ 104, 116, 120, 121, 124, 126, 151, 224

Stott, Naomi 189, 207

Streatley, Berkshire 80, 112, 114

Swinburne, Algernon 126, 223

Switzerland 195–6, 207

Symonds, A. J. A. 233

Symons, Arthur: ‘Stella Maris’ 122

Syrett, Netta 124

Teignmouth, Devon 155

Tenniel, John 141–2, 213, 237

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 38, 100, 141, 213, 220, 223, 240; Morte d’Arthur 64–5

Thames, river 22, 23, 27, 30, 46, 60, 80, 85, 178, 184

Thomson, Courtauld (brother-in-law) 157, 161, 182–3

Times Literary Supplement 195

‘To Rollo, Untimely Taken’ 135

Torquay, Devon 153

Toynbee Hall, Stepney 76, 82, 104, 111, 132, 137

Venice, Italy 71, 97–8

Victoria, Queen 13

Villino Landau, Italy 96

Waller, A. R. 221–2, 223

Ward, Sidney 104, 111–13, 181

Wells, H. G. 104

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 76–7, 104

‘Whitewashed Uncle, A’ 115

Whitman, Walt 100

Wilde, Oscar 95, 134–5, 196

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 126

Wind in the Willows, The 8, 13, 14–15, 27, 49, 57, 64, 77–8, 79, 80, 87, 92, 93, 107, 112–13, 114, 119, 133, 158–9, 160, 177, 184, 190, 192, 200, 207, 211–12, 214, 225, 227–8, 237, 238, 241

birth of 177–9

changes life of author 178–9

illustrations 194, 241

message of 225

The Odyssey (Homer) and 8, 199–200

principal characters in 200–1

publication 193–4, 222

reviews 194–5, 222–3

style and subject of 196–201

writing of 189, 190, 191–3

Woodside, South Ascot 182

Wordsworth, William 107, 108, 224

Yeats, W. B. 104, 194

Yellow Book, The 120–3, 124, 125, 126, 134–5, 137, 138, 214

‘Young Adam Cupid’ 115

Young Visiters, The 58