It is dedicated to Cormell Price
, his old headmaster. Its continuing popularity (with adults as well as children) has had to struggle against the obsolescence of the kind of boarding-school milieu which it depicts.
Friends, Associates
Rudyard Kipling
RK
and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones
, and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones
, at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here...
In 1878 RK
began attending a public (that is a private, fee-paying) school: United Services College
in Westward Ho!, near Bideford in northDevon. The headmaster, Cormell Price
, was a friend of Sir...
Instructor
Rudyard Kipling
After a long settling-in period when he endured some bullying, RK
made close friends and continued cultivating his love for literature. Price
proved a highly significant influence for the young man, allowing him the use...
Timeline
1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...
Writing climate item
1 January 1856
The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 725
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.