Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 4-23-2018
Abstract
There are so many fascinating things about R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s short story entitled “The Captive,” and indeed about the author himself. Graham was born in London in 1852 to Scottish parents. After attending private schools in London and Brussels, Graham left for South America when he was seventeen, where he was a cattle rancher, a horse dealer, and an explorer (Watts). He married a woman in 1878 who claimed to be from Chile but was actually from Yorkshire. His travels and adventures in South America and other places around the globe had a heavy influence on his writing, which included histories, essays, short fiction, and travel writing.
Recommended Citation
Breck, Amanda, "The Real Captivity in Graham’s “The Captive”" (2018). Modernist Short Story Project. 8.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mssp/8