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.
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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Her diction is pure, he...
Literary responses
E. Nesbit
Rudyard Kipling
wrote to EN
in amusing detail about his kiddies' delight in the version published in the Strand.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Literary responses
Elinor Glyn
This novella led to the widespread use of the term It: Whether you had It or not became the burning question of the day.
Etherington-Smith, Meredith, and Jeremy Pilcher. The "It" Girls. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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It also did much to re-establish EG
's reputation...
Literary responses
E. Nesbit
Again Kipling
wrote comically about the effect of her work in his household: how the governess had to read it aloud again and again, and his wife just all the time, and himself too, but...
Literary responses
Flora Annie Steel
The Spectator review found this volume to be marked by appreciation of the oriental standpoint, both ethical and religious.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Julie English Early
in the Dictionary of Literary Biography suggests that this may be a...
Occupation
Marghanita Laski
ML
's high public profile largely resulted from her radio work. One of her earliest wireless programmes, The Brains Trust, first went on air on 1 January 1941. In this highly intelligent quiz series...
Author summary
Rosemary Sutcliff
RS
, historical novelist, overcame disability to publish, over a span of forty years from 1950, more than fifty titles. Most are books for the young (billed for those of eleven and upwards, but having...
Publishing
Hannah Lynch
HL
reviewed French writers and writings for the Contemporary Review and for the Fortnightly Review, where her article on the French playwright and novelist Paul Hervieu
appeared in October 1896 and she reviewed A. Mary F. Robinson
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...
Reception
Alice Meynell
AM
was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson
; it was Patmore
who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...
Reception
Constance Naden
A propos her enthusiastic reception CN
observed (quoting Rudyard Kipling
) that she was beginning to consider myself a sort of Solar Myth.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
Another story here, Harvest, about changes in the land laws of the Punjab which FAS
disapproved, was called by a reviewer either by Kipling
or Diabolus.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann.