Fonds MIL - Personal Papers of Alan Alexander Milne

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GB 2014 WS-05-MIL

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Personal Papers of Alan Alexander Milne

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  • 1917 (Creation)

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1 manuscript, 8 pages.

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Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
(1882-1961)

Biographical history

Milne, Alan Alexander, brother of Kenneth John Milne (q.v.); b. Jan. 18, 1882; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1893; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Junior Samwaies) July 1900 (adm. sub-sizar Sept. 30, 1900); B.A. 1903; asst. editor of Punch 1906-14; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. Royal Warwicks Regt. Feb. 17, 1915; author of The Stepmother (1921), and other plays; his nursery books Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner achieved a world-wide success and have been translated into numerous foreign languages; author of an autobiography It's too Late Now (1937); m. June 1913, Dorothy, daughter of Martin de Selincourt; d. Jan. 31, 1956; his widow presented to the school the original M.S. of Winnie the Pooh 1961.

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Westminster School Archive

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