His ability to compose poetry and novels with equal style and appeal to children and adults alike demonstrated his great literary ability. Jessica Brain is a freelance writer specialising in history. Based in Kent and a lover of all things historical.
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Life Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai and lived with relatives in England between the ages of 6 and 17, when he returned to India. Work As a poet, short story writer, journalist and novelist, Rudyard Kipling described the British colonial empire in positive terms, which made his poetry popular in the British Army. Back to top Back To Top Takes users back to the top of the page.
Kipling's closest friend at Westward Ho! Another close friend was the headmaster, the principal of a private school "Crom" Price, who encouraged Kipling's literary ambitions by having him edit the school paper and praising the poems which he wrote for it. When Kipling sent some of these to India, his father had them privately printed as Schoolboy Lyrics , Kipling's first published work.
In Kipling rejoined his parents in Lahore, India, where he became a copy editor one who edits newspaper articles for the Civil and Military Gazette. In he moved to the Allahabad Pioneer, a better paper, which gave him greater liberty in his writing.
He published satiric sharply or bitterly witty verses, Departmental Ditties in , and over seventy short stories in in seven paperback volumes.
In style, these stories showed the influence of the writers Edgar Allan Poe — , Bret Harte — , and Guy de Maupassant — The subjects, however, were Kipling's own. He wrote about Anglo-Indian society, which he readily criticized with an acid pen, and the life of the common British soldier and the Indian native, which he portrayed accurately and sympathetically.
Rudyard Kipling. Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc. When he reached London, he found that his stories had preceded him and established him as a brilliant new author. He was readily accepted into the circle of leading writers.
Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed , was unsuccessful. But when his stories were collected as Life's Handicap and poems as Barrackroom Ballads , Kipling replaced Alfred, Lord Tennyson — as the most popular English author.
In Kipling married Caroline Balestier. They settled on the Balestier estate near Brattleboro, Vermont, in the United States, and began four of the happiest years of Kipling's life. Kipling revered the new home, with its lush gardens and classic details.
At Bateman's, Kipling found some of the happiness he thought he had forever lost following the death of Josephine. He was dedicated as ever to his writing, something Carrie helped ensure. Adopting the role of the head of the household, she held reporters at bay when they came calling and issued directions to both staff and children.
The same year he purchased Bateman's, Kipling also published his Just So Stories , which were greeted with wide acclaim. The book itself was in part a tribute to his late daughter, for whom Kipling had originally crafted the stories as he put her to bed. The book's name had, in fact, come from Josephine, who told her father he had to repeat each tale as he always had, or "just so," as Josephine often said.
As much of Europe braced for war with Germany, Kipling proved to be an ardent supporter of the fight. In , he even traveled to France to report on the war from the trenches. He also encouraged his son, John, to enlist. Since Josephine's death, Kipling and John had grown tremendously close.
Wanting to help his son enlist, Kipling drove John to several different military recruiters. But plagued with the same eyesight problems his father had, John was repeatedly turned down. Finally, Kipling made use of his connections and managed to get John enlisted with the Irish Guard as a second lieutenant. In October , the Kiplings received word that John had gone missing in France.
The news devastated the couple. Kipling, perhaps feeling guilty about his push to make his son a soldier, set off for France to find John. But nothing ever came of the search, and John's body was never recovered. A distraught and drained Kipling returned to England to once again mourn the loss of a child. While Kipling continued to write for the next two decades, he never again returned to the bright, cheery children's tales he had once so delighted in crafting.
Health issues eventually caught up to both Kipling and Carrie, the result of age and grief. Over his last few years, Kipling suffered from a painful ulcer that eventually took his life on January 18, Kipling's work entered the realm of mass popular entertainment in the Disney film adaptation of The Jungle Book , a animated musical loosely based on the original tale.
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