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.
Lâl, composed in Aberdeenshire, was rejected by several minor periodicals (to which Richard Gillies Hardy
had suggested FAS
should send it) but accepted at first sight by Mowbray Morris
of Macmillan's Magazine (who...
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E. Nesbit
It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge
, Keeper of Egyptian and...
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Noel Streatfeild
NS
published The Fearless Treasure, A Story of England from Then to Now, which (contrary to her usual habit but like well-known books by E. Nesbit
and Rudyard Kipling
) carries present-day children back into history.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head.
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Mary Angela Dickens
MAD
wrote frequently for The Windsor Magazine, interviewing authors for it at the turn of the century. In a study of the magazine's issues of the early 1910s, Robert Scholes
argues that the presence...
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Laurence Hope
LH
began writing poetry during her adolescence: sources differ as to how much of her juvenile writing she destroyed, although enough remained for the posthumous publication of Laurence Hope's Poems in 1907. Noting certain biographical...
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Constance Lytton
Most of the letters here are addressed to CL
's mother, her editor-sister, and two close friends who were also relations, her aunt Theresa Earle
and her cousin Adela Smith
.
Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, and Constance Lytton. “Preface, Introduction”. Letters of Constance Lytton, edited by Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour and Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann, p. v, xi - xv.
This contains eight stories reminiscent in their titles of Rudyard Kipling
's Just So Stories: How the Horse Looked Ahead, How the Swallows Learned the Song, and so on. In the latter...
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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...
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Clotilde Graves
In the novel itself the dedication's style is somewhat modified by narration and dialogue. Set largely during the siege of Mafeking in the Boer War (which began in October 1899), this highly coloured and broadly...
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Beatrice Harraden
They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions.
Harraden, Beatrice, and Elizabeth Robins. “The Sussex Hospital”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 934, p. 750.
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They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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Elizabeth B. Lester
This work quotes Cowper
on the title-page. The short stories (genuinely short this time) include A Few Days from My Journal (which opens with Johnson
's well-known remark to Boswell
about the pleasure of driving...
Residence
Michael Field
In 1890 they moved to a house called Durdans in Reigate, where they remained until 1899.
Blain, Virginia. Emails about Michael Field to Isobel Grundy.
Here they lived and wrote in relative seclusion but continued, as in earlier years, to travel widely.
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press.
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Reception
Lucas Malet
Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
topic of deformity, and its involving the hero emotionally with three women (his mother as...