Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rudyard Kipling
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Standard Name: Kipling, Rudyard
Birth Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling
An Indian-born English journalist, novelist, and travel writer, best-known for short stories, poetry, and children's books, RK
won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He never felt like a native in England although he spent most of his life there, lived in other countries as well, and never saw India after his mid-twenties. He was convinced of the moral mission of the British empire, seeing devoted heroism in its workers but pettiness and bureaucracy in its administration. He writes of India as an insider and his Indian writings were his best loved in England. His increasingly conservative politics seeped into his writing later in his career and lost him some of the immense, immediate public interest that his early work had garnered.
A study in temperament, this novel opens with its young hero, Ruan Scorrier, watching the outgoing tide turn on a beach on the rugged north Cornish coast, and imagining feelings for the sand and for...
Education
Maya Angelou
Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series.
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She also enjoyed and respected...
Education
Diana Athill
DA
was taught at home by governesses (seven successively before she was sent to school), who followed a correspondence course designed for home schooling which was known as Parents Educational National Union
. A French...
The work was inscribed to my dear friend E. E. K. (perhaps Rudyard Kipling's daughter Elsie
, then in her teens). Rudyard Kipling
assisted with the publication of LB
's verses, offering conscientious editing and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Barcynska
The Pleasure Garden is set partly in the London theatre world (or underworld) and partly in India (or rather in Burma, which was politically part of British India at this date). Kipling
's poetry...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Frances Billington
Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural...
Anthologization
Enid Blyton
It was perhaps EB
's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield
, Walter de la Mare
, and Rudyard Kipling
.
Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton.
The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Textual Features
Joanna Cannan
Ithuriel's Hour is titled from a poem by Kipling
called The Hour of the Angel, which foretells that Ithuriel's Hour / Will spring on us, for the first time, the test which will allocate...
Intertextuality and Influence
Joanna Cannan
Alison Dunbar, lonely among her fashion-conscious and shopping-mad schoolmates, begins writing her pony story in exercise books (as was Cannan's own habit) and attains the apotheosis of acceptance by a publisher. She also sheds the...
Timeline
26 February 1852: The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel...
National or international item
26 February 1852
The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel steamer carrying troops and civilians from England to South Africa, ran aground and sank; about five hundred men died, almost all of them soldiers.
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
Women writers item
9 April 1887
Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji
, a letter by Rukhmabai
appeared in the LondonTimes.
2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...
Writing climate item
2 September 1914
The British War Propaganda Bureau
(newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.
25 September 1915: A British offensive began at Loos, only to...
National or international item
25 September 1915
A British offensive began at Loos, only to end some days later after heavy losses.
1981: Valerie Gillies published Kim: Notes, a study...
Women writers item
1981
Valerie Gillies
published Kim: Notes, a study guide for Rudyard Kipling
's novel.
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
Writing climate item
1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Texts
Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Methuen, 1892.
Kipling, Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties. Civil and Military Gazette Press.
Kipling, Rudyard. “Introduction”. Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings, edited by Thomas Pinney, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. vii - xxxv.
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. Macmillan, 1902.
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. Macmillan, 1901.
Kipling, Rudyard. Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. Macmillan, 1925.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. Thacker, Spink and Co. ; Thacker, 1888.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. Macmillan, 1911.
Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. Macmillan, 1906.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself. Macmillan, 1937.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings. Editor Pinney, Thomas, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kipling, Rudyard. Stalky and Co. Macmillan, 1899.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day’s Work. Macmillan, 1898.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Macmillan, 1894.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Kessinger Publishing, 2004.
Kipling, Rudyard. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. Macmillan, 1911.