Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After his mother died when he was five, he and his siblings were sent to live with their grandmother in the village of Cookham Dean, on the River Thames in Berkshire, where he grew to love the river and the countryside. He attended St Edward's School in Oxford and hoped to go to Oxford University, but his family would not pay for it, and instead he went to work at the Bank of England in 1879. He rose to become its Secretary and retired in 1908. In his spare time he wrote essays and stories; The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), about a group of children, were very successful. He married Elspeth Thomson in 1899, and their only child, Alastair, was born the next year. The bedtime stories and letters Grahame wrote for Alastair developed into The Wind in the Willows (1908), about Mole, Ratty, Badger and the boastful Mr. Toad, who live along a river. Alastair died in 1920 while a student at Oxford. Grahame died at Pangbourne in 1932.

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