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.
One of the essays, Into Human Speech, deplores sloppy uses of language while agreeing that certain misuses may be strategic. It also considers the class differences in language use.
RPJ
issued a new volume of stories: East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi.
The title carries a memory of Kipling
's Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888.
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Pamela Frankau
PF
published a novel which takes its title from a poem by Kipling
: Road Through the Woods.
Kipling
titled his poem The Way Through the Wood, but in its first line the...
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Betty Miller
BM
's last biography, about Kipling
, was left unfinished (although three-quarters done) when ill-health overtook her.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii.
xvii
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Pamela Frankau
PF
published a novel, Slaves of the Lamp, which follows its characters through that period of their lives which ends in the Second World War; a sequel, Over the Mountains, 1967, ends at...
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Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up...
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Marghanita Laski
ML
's final publication was also her last literary biography: From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling
Abroad and at Home.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Flora Annie Steel
Commentators are agreed on the astonishing range and scope of FAS
's brief stories. Daya Patwardhan
, her first major critic, wrote that they present almost all the types of the teeming millions.
Steel, Flora Annie. “Introduction”. The Best Short Stories of Flora Annie Steel, edited by Saros Cowasjee et al., Indus, p. i - xvi.
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To...
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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...
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Flora Annie Steel
Lâl, composed in Aberdeenshire, was rejected by several minor periodicals (to which Richard Gillies Hardy
had suggested FAS
should send it) but accepted at first sight by Mowbray Morris
of Macmillan's Magazine (who...
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Marghanita Laski
ML
felt that Kipling
was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC
in 1974.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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E. Nesbit
It had previously been serialized from May 1905 to May 1906. Its treatment of ancient Egyptian magic owes a good deal to the information she received from Ernest Wallis Budge
, Keeper of Egyptian and...
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Noel Streatfeild
NS
published The Fearless Treasure, A Story of England from Then to Now, which (contrary to her usual habit but like well-known books by E. Nesbit
and Rudyard Kipling
) carries present-day children back into history.
Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head.
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Mary Angela Dickens
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...
Timeline
26 February 1852: The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel...
National or international item
26 February 1852
The Birkenhead, a 1,400-ton paddle-wheel steamer carrying troops and civilians from England to South Africa, ran aground and sank; about five hundred men died, almost all of them soldiers.
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
Women writers item
9 April 1887
Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji
, a letter by Rukhmabai
appeared in the LondonTimes.
2 September 1914: The British War Propaganda Bureau (newly...
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2 September 1914
The British War Propaganda Bureau
(newly formed along the lines of a similar body in Germany) summoned twenty-five writers to discuss the production of texts that would boost national feeling and the war effort.
25 September 1915: A British offensive began at Loos, only to...
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25 September 1915
A British offensive began at Loos, only to end some days later after heavy losses.
1981: Valerie Gillies published Kim: Notes, a study...
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1981
Valerie Gillies
published Kim: Notes, a study guide for Rudyard Kipling
's novel.
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Texts
Kipling, Rudyard. Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses. Methuen, 1892.
Kipling, Rudyard. Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling. Hodder and Stoughton, 1912.
Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties. Civil and Military Gazette Press.
Kipling, Rudyard. “Introduction”. Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings, edited by Thomas Pinney, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. vii - xxxv.
Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories. Macmillan, 1902.
Kipling, Rudyard. Kim. Macmillan, 1901.
Kipling, Rudyard. Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides. Macmillan, 1925.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. Thacker, Spink and Co. ; Thacker, 1888.
Kipling, Rudyard. Plain Tales from the Hills. Macmillan, 1911.
Kipling, Rudyard. Puck of Pook’s Hill. Macmillan, 1906.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself. Macmillan, 1937.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings. Editor Pinney, Thomas, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Kipling, Rudyard. Stalky and Co. Macmillan, 1899.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Day’s Work. Macmillan, 1898.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. Macmillan, 1894.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. Kessinger Publishing, 2004.
Kipling, Rudyard. Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. Macmillan, 1911.