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Private torments of Wind in Willows author; The book is a hymn to Old England. But, for its author, it meant much more than that. A hundred years after itspublication, John Preston explores the private torments that inspired Kenneth Grahame to write his c

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From: The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
Date: 20080217
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At around 11 o'clock on the morning of November 24 1903, a man called George Robinson who, in newspaper accounts of what followed would be referred to simply as "a Socialist Lunatic", arrived at the Bank of England. There, Robinson asked to speak to Sir Augustus Prevost, the governor. Since Prevost had retired, he was asked if he would like to see Kenneth Grahame, the bank secretary, instead.

When Grahame appeared, Robinson walked towards him holding out a rolled-up manuscript. It was tied at one end with a white ribbon and at the other with a black one. He asked Grahame to ...

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