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.
The first three chapters are devoted to each individual woman, while the fourth describes their coming together into a three-fold cord, which could not easily be broken.
Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. Something Happened. Hodder and Stoughton.
It was perhaps EB
's high point as a poet when she had five pieces included in an anthology that also featured work by John Masefield
, Walter de la Mare
, and Rudyard Kipling
.
Stoney, Barbara. Enid Blyton. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Frances Billington
Each chapter reflects on a single yet complex aspect of female life in India, from a woman's birth to her death. Each includes an epigraph to introduce its themes and issues, some from Indian cultural...
Intertextuality and Influence
Hélène Barcynska
The Pleasure Garden is set partly in the London theatre world (or underworld) and partly in India (or rather in Burma, which was politically part of British India at this date). Kipling
's poetry...
The work was inscribed to my dear friend E. E. K. (perhaps Rudyard Kipling's daughter Elsie
, then in her teens). Rudyard Kipling
assisted with the publication of LB
's verses, offering conscientious editing and...
DA
was taught at home by governesses (seven successively before she was sent to school), who followed a correspondence course designed for home schooling which was known as Parents Educational National Union
. A French...
Education
Maya Angelou
Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare
, she wrote later, was my first white love.
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Heinemann New Windmill Series.
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She also enjoyed and respected...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rose Allatini
A study in temperament, this novel opens with its young hero, Ruan Scorrier, watching the outgoing tide turn on a beach on the rugged north Cornish coast, and imagining feelings for the sand and for...