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.

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Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).
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.
254-5
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.
240
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.
156
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.
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Reception Margery Lawrence
In his Foreword to the volume, Sir Shane Leslie finds the influences of Shelley , Yeats , Tennyson , Kipling , Housman , Chesterton , and Fiona MacLeod (pen-name of William Sharp). Yet according to...
Reception Flora Annie Steel
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.
71
Diabolus is Latin for the devil...
Reception Jane Austen
JA 's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney , Anne Grant , Mary Ann Kelty , Maria Callcott , Maria Jane Jewsbury , Harriet Martineau
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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