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.
She was reciprocally admired by Ruskin
in the nineteenth century, and admired also by Kipling
in the twentieth. Critic Mary Lascelles
lamented at the centenary of JHE
's death that her books had been allowed...
Friends, Associates
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
She mentions with reverence her first meeting with Rudyard Kipling
, at Bath during the First World War soon after his son had been killed.
Emmuska, Baroness Orczy,. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Sara Jeannette Duncan
According to critic Rosemary Sullivan
, SJDwas an elitist and a monarchist. She had no difficulty with the lot of the Indians and the ethics of imperialism.
Sullivan, Rosemary, and Sara Jeannette Duncan. “Introduction”. The Pool in the Desert, edited by Gillian Siddall and Gillian Siddall, Broadview, pp. 11-22.
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...
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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Literary responses
Ethel M. Dell
She judged that EMD
dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides
or Shakespeare
; in an image...
Literary responses
Ethel M. Dell
Edward John Thompson
in The Other Side of the Medal, 1925, blamed EMD
's writings (along with those of Kipling
and Maud Oliver
) for spreading misconceptions about life in India.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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Her works...
Family and Intimate relationships
Victoria Cross
Cross's father, Arthur Cory
, was also English-born, and the child of a barrister. He was a military officer in India, first as a major in the Bengal Staff Corps
, and then a colonel...
Textual Production
B. M. Croker
The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma, a late example of BMC
's British Raj novels, was titled from a popular Kipling
poem whose speaker is a former British soldier who is...
Intertextuality and Influence
B. M. Croker
The first chapter is has an epigraph from Pope
(A youth of frolic, an old age of cards) and Croker goes on to head her chapters with great literary names like Milton
and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Wendy Cope
The title, and the verse-form that goes with it, derive from Kipling
's The Law of the Jungle—a deliberately ironic circumstance, since Kipling writes of the rules meticulously observed by wolves and other wild...
Friends, Associates
Agatha Christie
The Millers entertained frequently and lavishly at their home. Among the guests at Ashfield were Rudyard Kipling
and Henry James
.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Christie, Agatha. An Autobiography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
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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...