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Chalmers, Patrick: Kenneth Grahame: Life, Letters and Unpublished Work 9, 62, 84, 235, 243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