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's mother was unenthusiastic about the marriage; his father showed his approval of Caroline's general competence by calling her a good man spoiled by her gender.
Carrington, Charles. Rudyard Kipling. His Life and Work. Macmillan, 1955.
This trip proved devastating. The whole family except Caroline fell ill with whooping cough or pneumonia. The lung infections of Kipling and his eldest daughter Josephine
brought them to delirium or coma. His fight to...
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's birth family was unselfconsciously, playfully literary. One winter she spent hours writing and neatly copying a whole book full of poems for her dear friend and cousin Josephine Kipling
(daughter of the writer)...
