The Milne Family, Part II

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Picking up where we left off in Part I, Christine looks at World War II through as experienced by the Milnes (both on the home front and in the military), explains how post-war life saw a dramatic change in the family's dynamics, and follows Christopher as he becomes a family man with his own career and interesting insights into topics like war, disability, and the book industry. 

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Further Reading

"A.A. Milne Dead in England at 74", New York Times, (1 February 1956).

Annemarie Bilclough and Emma Laws, Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic, V&A Publishing, (2017).

Christopher Robin Milne in CNN Ashdown Forest segment, c 1988, via YouTube.
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"Christopher Robin Milne, 75, Pooh's Companion", New York Times, (22 April 1996).

The Clare Milne Trust.

Paul Harrison, "Kain, Edgar James", Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.

A.A. Milne, It’s Too Late Now, Methuen & Co. (1939).

--, Peace with Honour, Methuen & Co. (1934-1936).

Christopher Milne, The Enchanted Places, Mandarin (1994) - originally Eyre Methuen (1974).

--, The Open Garden + The Windfall, Metheun & Co. (1988).

--, The Path Through the Trees, Dutton (1979).

Ann Thwaite, A.A. Milne: His Life, Tempus, (2006).

--, “Milne, Alan Alexander (1882-1956)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, (2004).

--, "Obituary: Christopher Milne", The Independent, (23 April 1996). 

Images

​​21st April 1948: Christopher Robin Milne, immortalized with his toy bear Winnie-the-Pooh in his father A A Milne's children's classics, and his fiancée Lesley de Selincourt. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

​Author Christopher Robin Milne unveiling a statue of a bear, in honor of his father, AA Milne, and his creation, Winnie the Pooh, at London Zoo, September 1981. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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21st April 1948: Christopher Robin Milne, immortalized with his toy bear Winnie-the-Pooh in his father A A Milne's children's classics, and his fiancee Lesley de Selincourt. (Photo by J. Wilds/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

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Author Christopher Robin Milne unveiling a statue of a bear, in honor of his father, AA Milne, and his creation, Winnie the Pooh, at London Zoo, September 1981. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)