His miserable experience at Southsea near Portsmouth from 1871 until 1877 must have seemed like forever to a child. For colonial parents in India to be separated from their children was common practice, but why...
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Rudyard Kipling
Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK
was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway
forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned...