Cormell Price

In 1878 RK began attending a public (that is a private, fee-paying) school: United Services College in Westward Ho!, near Bideford in northDevon. The headmaster, Cormell Price , was a friend of Sir...

After a long settling-in period when he endured some bullying, RK made close friends and continued cultivating his love for literature. Price proved a highly significant influence for the young man, allowing him the use...

RK and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones , and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones , at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here...

While studying at Oxford , he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones , who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford , Charles Faulkner , Cormell Price , and Richard Watson Dixon

It is dedicated to Cormell Price , his old headmaster. Its continuing popularity (with adults as well as children) has had to struggle against the obsolescence of the kind of boarding-school milieu which it depicts.