Grahame contributed essays and stories to ´´The Yellow Book´´ and W. E. Henley´s ´´National Observer´´ and his collections ´´Pagan Observer´´ ´´The Golden Age´´ and ´´Dream Days´´ were well received by erities such as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (´´Q´´, 1863-1944).
Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899, and their only child, Alastair, wasborn the following year (he was killed in 1918). Grahame created the character of Toad to amuse his son, but it was not until 1908 that he published ´´The W ...