![]() These letters eventually became The Wind in the Willows, which Grahame published right after his retirement. Just before his retirement, Grahame and his wife took a trip-and Alistair agreed to stay home with his nanny, provided Grahame wrote him letters with bedtime stories. Grahame retired in 1908, and many believe he retired because he was almost killed in a shooting incident at work several years earlier. During his time at the bank he married Elspeth Thompson they had one son, Alistair, who suffered from a variety of health conditions. ![]() They got him a job with the Bank of England, where he worked for almost 30 years. Though Grahame was a good student and wanted to attend University of Oxford, his father and grandmother wouldn’t let him go due to the cost of tuition. Grahame’s grandmother lived in a spacious but run-down house near the River Thames biographers believe that it was Grahame’s grandmother’s home that inspired the setting of The Wind in the Willows. At this point, Grahame’s father, a lawyer and an alcoholic, sent his four children to live with their maternal grandmother. When he was five years old, his mother died of complications after childbirth. Grahame’s early life was both tragic and idyllic. ![]()
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