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  Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kipling was born in Bombay (today Mumbai, India; the house in which he was born still stands on the campus of the Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in Bombay.
Kipling was a cousin of the three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
Kipling's defenders point out that much of the most blatant racism in his writing is spoken by fictional characters, not by him, and thus accurately depicts the characters.
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 Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 december 1865, Bombay, India – 18 januari 1936, Londen) was een Britse schrijver en dichter.
Rudyard Kipling ontving in 1907 de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur.
Kipling was een uitgesproken pleiter voor het imperialisme.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudyard_Kipling   (383 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling - Books and Biography
Kipling, who was not accustomed to traditional English beatings, expressed later his feeling of the treatment in the short story 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep', in the novel THE LIGHT THAT FAILED (1890), and in his autobiography (1937).
Kipling was dissatisfied with the life in Vermont, and after the death of his daughter, Josephine, Kipling took his family back to England and settled in Burwash, Sussex.
Kipling died on January 18, 1936 in London, and was buried in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey.
www.readprint.com /author-54/Rudyard-Kipling   (1229 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling - Biography and Works
Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, where his father was an arts and crafts teacher at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art.
Kipling's short stories and verses gained success in the late 1880s in England, to which he returned in 1889, and was hailed as a literary heir to Charles Dickens.
Kipling was dissatisfied with the life in Vermont, and after the death of his daughter, he took his family back to England and settled in Burwash, Sussex.
www.online-literature.com /kipling   (778 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling- content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay on December 30th 1865, son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and teacher of architectural sculpture, and his wife Alice.
The Kiplings were to suffer a second bereavement with the death of their son John, at the age of 18, in the Battle of Loos in 1915.
Rudyard Kipling's reputation grew from phenomenal early critical success to international celebrity, then faded for a time as his conservative views were held by some to be old-fashioned.
www.kipling.org.uk /kip_content.htm   (885 words)

  
 Naulakha (Kipling House)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kipling's study had to be entered before her husband's which made her the brunt of the unexpected callers' criticism.
Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865, the son of English parents living in Bombay, India.
As Rudyard Kipling said: "The joy of the house is the loggia with the ten foot window that slides up bodily and lets all the woods and mountains in upon you in a flood."(6) The window still remains, and the pocket doors and panels which were in storage will be reinstalled in their Kipling-period configuration.
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 Biography of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, made a significant contribution to English Literature in various genres including poetry, short story and novel.
In 1907 Kipling won the Nobel prize in literature in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterized his writings.
In contrast to the path his reputation took, Rudyard Kipling improved as a poet as his career matured and by the time of his death Kipling had compiled one of the most diverse collection of poetry in English Literature.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/1457/biograph.htm   (771 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was highly critical of the Liberal Government that had been established by Henry Campbell-Bannerman following the 1906 General Election.
Kipling was hostile to its imperial and Ulster policies and the pacifism of many of its leading figures.
As a result of his hostility to the Liberal Government, Kipling was not one of those invited by Charles Masterman, the head of the secret War Propaganda Bureau, to the meeting of Britain's leading writers, on 2nd September, 1914.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jkipling.htm   (914 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 in Bombay, in the same year as W. Yeats but at the opposite end of the British Empire.
Alice Kipling, Rudyard's mother, was one of a spirited and attractive family with connections in the world of the arts and public life.
For Rudyard the miseries of Southsea were relieved by occasional holidays with his aunt and uncle, Georgie and Edward Burne-Jones, in the still somewhat raffish and liberal artistic circles of the pre-Raphaelite survival, very much at odds with Kipling's later and more notorious views and associations: Tory, imperialist, and philistine.
www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4913   (730 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling - Poetry Archive
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay (present day Mombai).
Kipling died in 1936 at the age of 70.
Kipling's use of traditional forms and his political attitudes - increasingly branded racist - were rejected by the new forces in poetry, though he remained popular with the middle classes.
www.poetryarchive.org /poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1690   (663 words)

  
 UTEL: Rudyard Kipling Page
"Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865.
His father, John Lockwood Kipling, was the author and illustrator of Beast and Man in India and his mother, Alice, was the sister of Lady Burne-Jones.
"Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907.
www.library.utoronto.ca /utel/authors/kiplingr.html   (324 words)

  
 RUDYARD KIPLING AND BATEMANS WATER MILL, GENERATING INDUSTRY BEGINNINGS CIRCA 1900, DIRECT CURRENT SUPPLY AND THE ...
Rudyard and Carrie had been married for ten years when they moved to Bateman's and he was by then the most famous writer in the English-speaking world.
Rudyard Kipling died in 1936 and Carrie continued to live at Bateman's until her death in 1939, when she bequeathed the estate to the National Trust as a memorial to her late husband.
Kipling was born in Bombay, India (The house in which he was born still stands on the campus of Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art in Mumbai).
www.solarnavigator.net /history/rudyard_kipling.htm   (2725 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling - Free Online Library
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, but educated in England at the United Services College, Westward Ho, Bideford.
Kipling was the poet of the British Empire and its yeoman, the common soldier, whom he glorified in many of his works, in particular Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) and Soldiers Three (1888), collections of short stories with roughly and affectionately drawn soldier portraits.
Kipling was the recipient of many honorary degrees and other awards, including, in 1907, the Nobel Prize for Literature.
kipling.thefreelibrary.com   (428 words)

  
 RUDYARD KIPLING AND MUSIC by Philip Scowcroft: MusicWeb(UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was the bard of [the British] Empire in all its manifestations.
Kipling, grieving for his missing soldier son, was lukewarm about the idea, but Elgar, who later described his settings as being in a "broad salt water style", was enthusiastic.
Kipling even appeared in musical comedy when The Drums of the Fore and Aft was included as a drum feature in The Antelope (1908), whose music was by the Austrian-born Hugo Felix - but the show, briefly staged at the Waldorf, failed.
www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/June01/Kipling.htm   (1390 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling and Scouting
From 1892 to 1889, he was on the editorial staff of the Civil and Military Gazette, the daily newspaper of Lahore, India, for which he wrote short stories.
From 1892 to 1896, the Kiplings lived in Brattleboro, Vermont on an estate belonging to Mrs.
Kipling was the author of "The Scout's Patrol Song" which was the official Boy Scout song.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rudyard Kipling
His maternal aunt was married to the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and young Kipling and his sister spent much time with the Burne-Joneses in England from the ages of six to twelve, while his parents remained in India.
While the couple was on honeymoon, Kipling's bank failed, and cashing in their travel tickets only let the couple return as far as Vermont (where most of the Balestier family lived).
Kipling's antisemitism is clear in the brief episodes about Punch and The Times in the last chapter of Something of Myself.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling   (1423 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, the novelist, short-story writer and poet, known for his tales about British soldiers in India and Burma, and particularly The Jungle Book and Just So stories and fables.
In 1907 Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Describing Kipling's family, and a "timeline" of major events in his later life.
www.ontalink.com /literature/rudyard_kipling   (276 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kipling's forays beyond the boundaries of conventional literature usually involved fantasy or the supernatural.
Though Kipling lived most of his life in England, he was born in and spent many of his childhood and early adult years in India (then part of the British Empire).
Upon his death, Kipling was given a burial in Westminster Abbey--one of England's highest honors.
wondersmith.com /scifi/kipling.htm   (238 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
Born into an upper-middle class family in Bombay in 1865, Kipling was living at the height of the British Empire.
The Indian Mutiny had been put down ten years earlier, and Kipling would go on to celebrate what many see now as the shameful subjugation of poorer nations: he was the champion of British Imperialism.
Kipling died in 1936, having seen Britain all but lose her Empire.
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 The Literary Gothic | Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kipling's ghostly tales evince a powerful interest in the psychological, and their subtlety and indirection can be quite impressive.
A powerfully disturbing tale, a sort of Indian subcontinent werewolf riff, with implications resonant with Kipling's enduring interest in the impact of colonialism on both colonized and colonizer.
Kipling is believed to be the first English author who owned an automobile, so this may be the first ghost story in which an automobile appears (albeit in a fairly minor way).
www.litgothic.com /Authors/kipling.html   (869 words)

  
 Works of Rudyard Kipling: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The jungle book (1894) is a collection of stories written by the famous author rudyard kipling while he was living in vermont....
Mowgli is a fictional feral childrenferal child character who originally appeared in rudyard kiplings short story "in the rukh" (collected in many inventions,...
Kim is a spy novel and picaresque novel, written by rudyard kipling and first published in 1901....
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 Amazon.com: Kim (Penguin Classics): Books: Rudyard Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj.
Kipling's masterpiece about an orphaned British beggar boy who knows the streets and marketplaces of India better than any native would be a pleasure read plainly.
Kipling's India is a diverse place, with a plethora of people groups in it, divided by caste, religion, ethnicity, whatever.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140183523?v=glance   (2155 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Just So Stories (Books of Wonder): Books: Rudyard Kipling,Barry Moser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kipling gives listeners the stories behind the elephant's long trunk, the camel's spots, and the taming of the first dog, to name just a few of the dozen yarns featuring animal escapades in India and Africa.
Rudyard Kipling, referred to by one reviewer here as "not a very good writer" was the first English writer to win the Nobel Prize (not the Pulitzer) for literature, in 1907.
Kipling had me rolling with laughter with each of the stories, and most of the time his notes on his pictures were the funniest parts (well, this picture doesn't have anything to do with the story, but it does have an armadillo in it...).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688139574?v=glance   (1677 words)

  
 Bruder Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard und seine Schwester Trix werden von ihren Eltern nach England gebracht, um sie in englischer Tradition erziehen zu lassen, und bleiben dort für sechs Jahre.
Januar heiratet Rudyard Balestiers Schwester Caroline Starr Balestier.
Rudyard wird den Tod von Josephine nie verwinden.
www.internetloge.de /arst/kipling.htm   (3723 words)

  
 Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden
Born in British India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England before returning to India in 1882, where his father was a museum director and authority on Indian arts and crafts.
Thus Kipling was thoroughly immersed in Indian culture: by 1890 he had published in English about 80 stories and ballads previously unknown outside India.
As a writer, Kipling perhaps lived too long: by the time of his death in 1936, he had come to be reviled as the poet of British imperialism, though being regarded as a beloved children's book author.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kipling.html   (351 words)

  
 'If'by Rudyard Kipling, famous inspirational poems and quotes
Rudyard Kipling's (1865-1936) inspirational poem 'If' first appeared in his collection 'Rewards and Fairies' in 1909.
Kipling's 'If' contains mottos and maxims for life, and the poem is also a blueprint for personal integrity, behaviour and self-development.
Kipling is said to have written the poem 'If' with Dr Leander Starr Jameson in mind, who led about five-hundred of his countrymen in a failed raid against the Boers, in southern Africa.
www.businessballs.com /ifpoemrudyardkipling.htm   (733 words)

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