Facts about The Wind in the Willows?

The Title does not give any hint of the plot or substance. the original novel, written around l905 by Kenneth Grahame, was essentially, an animal cartoon written as a novel. I have been exposed to snatches of it, chapters or so in Readers in Grammar and English Books in High school . There are, given some hindsight, some cultural misgivings. There are NO female characters. There are overtones of a sort of homosexual men"s club or associaton. Setting is Edwardian England- I cannot see how the title was derived, it has nothing to do with the plot.