In 1878 RK
began attending a public (that is a private, fee-paying) school: United Services College
in Westward Ho!, near Bideford in northDevon. The headmaster, Cormell Price
, was a friend of Sir...
Instructor
Rudyard Kipling
After a long settling-in period when he endured some bullying, RK
made close friends and continued cultivating his love for literature. Price
proved a highly significant influence for the young man, allowing him the use...
Friends, Associates
Rudyard Kipling
RK
and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones
, and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones
, at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here...
It is dedicated to Cormell Price
, his old headmaster. Its continuing popularity (with adults as well as children) has had to struggle against the obsolescence of the kind of boarding-school milieu which it depicts.
Timeline
1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...
Writing climate item
1 January 1856
The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 725
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.