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.
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933.
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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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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, 1961.
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Naomi Jacob
She wrote to Kipling
to enquire the meaning of the words and he reproved her for using them without understanding them.
Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson, 1933.
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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.
qtd. in
Steel, Flora Annie. “Introduction”. The Best Short Stories of Flora Annie Steel, edited by Saros Cowasjee et al., Indus, 1995, p. i - xvi.
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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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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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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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, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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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.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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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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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...
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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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Rose Macaulay
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.
