'Goodbye to All That'
Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon to Alfred Perceval Graves, a school inspector of Anglo-Irish and Scots descent, and Amalia von Ranke, the niece of the great German historian Leopold von Ranke. As a student at Charterhouse, where Robert first began to write poetry, his German ancestry caused him no end of troubles, an experience detailed in Graves's autobiographical novel, 'Goodbye to All That', published to commercial and critical success in 1929.
