By that stage White's children's story of Wart had been lost in the famous adult romance of the Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot triangle.
His early interest in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (1485) and experience as a tutor and teacher led White to invent the comic and didactic details of Wart's education and to give Merlyn a more active role. As a tutor he had earned his way through Queen's College, Cambridge; he was briefly a teacher at Saint David's preparatory school in southern England (1930-1932) and finally the demanding but charismatic head of the English department (1932-1936) at Stowe School on that famous English estate. Royalties from The Once and Future King made White a wealthy man, able to indulge his whims and vagaries and to break his self-imposed isolation. He befriended celebrities such as Julie Andrews and her husband Tony Walton and played host to groups of deaf and blind persons during the summer at his home on the Channel Island of Alderney.
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