Aubrey de Sélincourt
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Aubrey de Sélincourt was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. He was also a keen sailor. He had over 24 books credited to his authorship, but is chiefly remembered for his translation
De Sélincourt (seated, right) in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, c. 1918
Room in Martin de Selincourt's house, 1926
Christopher Robin Milne
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Christopher Robin Milne was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh s
Aubrey de Sélincourt
…A. A. Milne in 1913. In 1919, de Sélincourt married the poet Irene Rutherford McLeod. They had two daughters: Lesley (who married her first cousin, Christopher Robin Milne) and Anne. Streams of Ocean (London: William Heinemann, 1923) – essays…
Milne in 1928
Milne's childhood stuffed animals – the inspiration for characters in the Pooh stories – are now owned by the New York Public Library. (Roo was lost when Christopher Robin was nine years old.)