Classic children's book The Wd the Willows was thor Kenh Grahame's gay manifto, claims profsor Peter Hunt - an amic at the prtig Cardiff Universy.
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The emer profsor English and children's lerature at Cardiff Universy said that there was reason to believe Grahame was gay spe havg a wife and child Grahame reer cid wh a time before the crimalisatn of homosexual acts, wh Hunt suggtg the works were maniftatns of a life he longed forA year after publitn she married the artist Maxwell Armfield, who was gay, Profsor Hunt said. 'It jt strik me that if you've got a woman who go to see Kenh Grahame and his wife and Kenh is gay and she marri a gay man, then you n see some empathy gog on. "People always asked me whether he was homosexual, " Hanlon said.
WD THE WILLOWS 'WAS KENH GRAHAME'S GAY MANIFTO'
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