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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Wilson
EW 's parents were married by Frederic William Macdonald , an uncle of Rudyard Kipling , brother of writer Louisa Baldwin , and brother-in-law of painter Edward Burne-Jones . As a wedding gift, Macdonald gave...
Friends, Associates Amabel Williams-Ellis
During Amabel's childhood, visitors to the St Loe Strachey household included the powerful and famous, mostly diplomats, millionaires, politicians.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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She met diplomat Lord Cromer , newspaper proprietor Lord Northcliffe (then Alfred Harmsworth), industrialist Arthur Balfour
Intertextuality and Influence Amabel Williams-Ellis
The varied influences on AWE 's passion for folk and fairy tales include her uncle Henry Strachey , Rudyard Kipling , and Maxim Gorky .
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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In her memoir she comments that, since World War...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head.
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Her diction is pure, he...
Textual Production 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...
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
ST 's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes ,...
Education Susan Tweedsmuir
She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer 's...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Tree
Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...
Family and Intimate relationships Angela Thirkell
Stanley Baldwin , later Prime Minister, and the poet and story-writer Rudyard Kipling , were both cousins of AT 's mother. Kipling entered fully into the playing of a long-running English Civil War game with...
Literary responses Angela Thirkell
She later observed that her poems for Josephine had no merit at all, being poor in thought and construction and largely borrowed from other sources. At this stage Rudyard Kipling , too, was crushing about...
Author summary Rosemary Sutcliff
RS , historical novelist, overcame disability to publish, over a span of forty years from 1950, more than fifty titles. Most are books for the young (billed for those of eleven and upwards, but having...
Education Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary's mother was probably her most important teacher. She told her stories which, no matter how outlandish and fantastic, the very young Rosemary accepted as literal truth; she later imparted all kinds of varied information...
Literary responses Rosemary Sutcliff
Margaret Meek judged this to be, partly on account of the setting, the most Kiplingesque of Sutcliff's books, as well as the best she had written by the early 1960s.
Meek, Margaret. Rosemary Sutcliff. The Bodley Head.
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The TLS review...
Textual Production 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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Textual Production 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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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...

Writing climate item

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...

National or international item

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...

Women writers item

1981

Valerie Gillies published Kim: Notes, a study guide for Rudyard Kipling 's novel.

1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...

Writing climate item

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.