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Following the death of their son, Grahame and Elsie went to Italy and spent several years travelling. When they returned to England, they settled at Church Cottage in the village of Pangbourne , where Grahame died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 6 July 1932.
Nov 26, 2010 · Kenneth Grahame died in 1932, a broken-hearted man of 73, who hadn’t written anything of note since The Wind In The Willows was published in 1908. The reason for his heartbreak lies next to him —...
Nov 7, 2018 · The divide in Grahame goes back to Inveraray on Loch Fyne in the west of Scotland. There, in 1864, when Kenneth was five, his mother Bessie died, and his father, once a clever young advocate in Edinburgh but already on a downhill course, collapsed in alcoholic grief.
Dec 26, 2018 · Grahame discovered Nature as a child. In a life punctuated by personal unhappiness (the early death of his mother, his father’s alcoholism, his own unsuccessful marriage and the suicide of his only son), Nature and landscape provided his principal joys.
Jul 2, 2024 · Died: July 6, 1932, Pangbourne, Berkshire, England (aged 73) Notable Works: “The Wind in the Willows”. Kenneth Grahame (born March 8, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 6, 1932, Pangbourne, Berkshire, England) was a British author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children’s literature.
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Robinson’s motives remain murky. The newspapers called him a “socialist lunatic” bent on damaging England’s fiscal reputation. For Grahame, the disturbing incident held a deeper meaning. According to journalist John Preston, it confirmed that.
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Jan 6, 2021 · An inquest determined his death a likely suicide but out of respect for his father, it was recorded as an accident. Kenneth Grahame, by all accounts , never recovered from the loss of his only...
