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.
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.
750
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...
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Elspeth Huxley
Nicholls
feels that Norah Smallwood
missed a trick by failing to jump at the chance when EH
first suggested a sequel to The Flame Trees of Thika, which she did when delivering the first...
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Naomi Jacob
Under her pseudonym of Ellington Gray, NJ
published a novel entitled Saffroned Bridesails, a phrase which she found in a poem by Kipling
.